At Société Générale, a strike for teleworking – Liberation

The questioning of continuous telework. Furthermore, A movement of forced return to the office initiated at first by large American companies. In addition, such as Amazon or SpaceX, but which is exploring more and more in France. Similarly, This is the case at Société Générale, where strike notice was filed for this Friday, June 27. Therefore, In question: management’s decision to force all employees of the company to return to their workplace at least four days a week. Similarly, against three so far.

In an internal email sent Thursday. Meanwhile, June 19, that Libération was able to consult, the director general of Société Générale, Slawomir Krupa, explains that he made this decision to “Harmonize work practices”. Furthermore, He also justifies his choice by a desire to“Accelerate the group’s transformation, promote its development and improve société générale, strike teleworking – its performance”.

A choice that caused the CFDT. Consequently, the CFTC and the CGT which in a joint statement call for a strike on June 27 and an operation “All on site” on July 3. The intersyndicale denounces a “The brutality of the email. the difficulties that such a decision could generate” While 75 % of employees benefit from telework.

For Johanna Delestre. national union delegate at the CFDT Société Générale, “The reasons for the Friday strike relate to form as much as in substance”. “We learned the news in the same way as everyone, by a simple DG email. We are in a company where normally, there is social dialogue. There, it is completely trampled ”, she regrets.

On the merits. the unionist recalls that “Many employees have taken positions on the basis of the telework agreement société générale, strike teleworking – which had been negotiated with management” at the exit of COVVID. An agreement that made it possible to obtain two or three days of telework per week. “They sometimes moved away from the Paris region for private or financial reasons. For some today. they make two trips per week and they would be brought to do so four times in the week ”, underlines Johanna Delestre. What “Completely change private life-life conciliation”.

The dates of the two actions were not chosen by chance. That of this Friday falls at the end of the month. which is likely to disrupt the activity of the bank and to block certain flows, such as the transfers of wages. The “all on -site” operation of July 3 will encourage all employees to go to their workplace. with the aim of “Demonstrate that if all employees come the same day to société générale, strike teleworking – the office in Paris, it will be a hell of a mess”, provides Johanna Delestre.

The objective is to prove to the management that a massive face -to -face return is not possible to date. There would no longer be enough room to accommodate all employees. according to her, after the bank has achieved «23 millions» Save real estate in the past three years thanks to teleworking, according to the Cedeist.

This operation will take place the day before a meeting scheduled for July 4 between management. trade union organizations, intended to officially or not endow this change on the distant. If their claim was not heard, the representative of the reformist union is already threatening a new social movement.