Overview
- Lidl told AFP it plans to remove as many as 550 administrative jobs on a voluntary basis, equal to about 1.2% of its 46,000 employees in France.
- The company will negotiate the project with unions under a collective voluntary severance process known in France as a rupture conventionnelle collective.
- Targeted roles include supply chain order management, human resources, and merchandising as Lidl moves certain tasks to centralized teams to standardize how work is done.
- The retailer said there will be no forced departures and about 100 new jobs would be created at its Strasbourg and Châtenay-Malabry headquarters.
- Lidl says the reorganization aims to boost competitiveness and simplify operations in a tight grocery market, with store and warehouse staffing left unchanged.