Orange with Media Services, published on Wednesday, February 23, 2022 at 6:30 p.m.
The Carrefour group, the largest private employer in France, will grant a minimum increase of 2.6% to its employees working in hypermarkets.
Each employee of the group will receive in 2022 at least 600 euros gross more than in 2021, indicated the distribution brand, while galloping inflation weighs on purchasing power.
In hypermarkets, which represent approximately 60% of the group’s French workforce, the minimum increase will reach 2.6% (1.3% on February 1 and 1.3% on July 1) per employee and even 2.8% for the vast majority with more than four months of seniority, while an additional 1% was already granted at the beginning of November .
This proposal has just been accepted by FO, the CFDT and the CFE-CGC at the end of the mandatory annual negotiations, and the group displays a certain optimism that it will be the same in the days to come with the Market supermarkets (FO and CFE-CGC have already initialed the agreement also submitted for signature by CGT, CFDT and CFTC) and logistics.
In these two other branches, the levels of increase should be “comparable” to what was negotiated for the hypermarkets, it is said internally.
Incentive, participation and salary increase
In concrete terms, the minimum increase in purchasing power of basic hypermarket employees breaks down into 200 euros of additional profit-sharing/participation (941 euros on average in 2022), 700 euro salary increasefrom which approximately 300 euros in various bonuses not renewed in 2022 must be deducted, explains Carrefour.
Depending on the evolution of inflation, a review clause in the second half is also included. Finally, the discount on Carrefour products from which employees benefit is increased for 2022 from 10 to 12% and applies in particular to fuel.
“Between inflation and good results, Carrefour is laughing at us”, protests Philippe Allard (CGT).
“We are below inflation which will continue to rise and we already know that we will meet again in September”.
“Announcement effects”?
“The group has just granted more than 400 million euros in dividends and the redistribution represents less than 100 million euros. The incentive-participation reaches more than 2,000 euros for the highest salaries. It should be standardized,” he said.
“We are about 1% above what we obtained from the other brands”, notes for his part Cyril Boulay (FO, majority). “But beware of effects. The contents of the employees’ fridge also costs 600 euros more”.
Carrefour, which employs more than 100,000 people in France, announced in mid-February a sharp increase in net profit of 67% in 2021, to 1.07 billion euros.