Overview

• The administrative tribunal in Lille invalidated Auchan’s group-wide plan de sauvegarde de l’emploi that targeted 2,389 job eliminations.
• Judges said a group-level agreement required separate union signatures from each of the five components of the Auchan structure.
• The court also found the information given to employee committees incomplete because it excluded data from Acanthe, Valorest and Cimofat controlling Suraumarché.
• The case was brought by the CGT commerce federation along with a company CSE and several employees.
• Auchan said the plan’s substance remains sound, citing 1,000 resolved cases including about 320 internal reassignments and 100 employees taken back after months of negotiations and broad union backing.