La Poste Cuts 600 Financial Centre Jobs

According to union sources, 600 jobs are to be cut this year at the 21 financial centres of La Poste, the French post office. These centres currently employ about 20,000 people. The job cuts were announced to unions at the start of the week. Out of 1,400 people taking retirement, 600 will not be replaced. According to the SUD PTT union, management justifies these measures by pointing to gains in productivity, notably resulting from computerisation projects, such as the computerisation of cheque processing between financial and banking establishments. ‘Management thinks that this restructuring justifies job-cuts, but new activities which need jobs have also been created,’ says Regis Blanchot of SUD PTT.
La Tribune