SFR is under pressure. The operator would provide for emergency measures to cut costs. On the agenda: freezing or stopping some projects, and freezing recruitment. Beset by difficulties on the front of the mobile and on the performance of his Neufbox Evolution, Vodafone is preparing to implement emergency measures. It is the agency Reuters has been able to obtain an internal document showing the operator of austerity measures. In union sources, the details of these so-called "interim" was presented yesterday to the staff representatives during a works council chaired by Jean-Bernard Levy, CEO of the new operator in place of Frank Esser, who resigned earlier this week.
The management of SFR would also prepare by summer a strategic plan with a major reorganization of the company. According to the document obtained by Reuters, Vodafone provides for the freezing or termination of certain projects, hiring freezes in permanent contracts, the non-renewal of fixed term contracts and judgments of temporary contracts or providers.
These measures are expected to reach 150 to 200
employees by the union estimates, but Reuters has achieved one of his sources
that the operator would provide 1500 additional losses through non-renewal of
fixed-term contracts and temporary contracts stoppages or providers in the next
18 to 24 months. SFR has approximately 10,000 employees.
