La Poste to add 4,000 staff to ranks
La Poste will look to recruit 4,000 staff during 2011, the operator has announced. Georges Lefebvre, director of human resources and labour relations at La Poste made the announcement on Thursday.
The number of new recruits will rise sharply compared to 2010 figures – when La Poste took on 2,900 people.
Up to 2,500 of the 4,000 employees could be alternate workers, including staff that deliverer mail and work in post office branches.
In a statement, the operator said it is looking to fill the positions in order to strengthen health & safety and human resources, as well as boosting graduate numbers within the company.
At present, La Poste has more than 287,000 employees and has 17,000 points of contact.
Speaking in the French media, Colette Duynslaeger, secretary general at the CGT union, said that the recruitment was down to the fact the economic situation at La Poste was “less catastrophic than expected”.
She said that the decision to employ 4,000 was “good news”, but added it will be important to ensure that people are located to areas most in need of extra resources.
