Against a backdrop of ‘digitalized industrial relations’, on 17 November, French rail company SNCF together with the principal representative union bodies, the central works council, and the company’s committees secured an agreement that instigates a new communications system. Its main point of departure lies in the fact that the unions and company committees will be allowed to send emails to SNCF staff via employee professional email boxes. All communications will pass through a platform that will redirect the communications to the employees’ own mailboxes, on the proviso that they have agreed to this in advance. A subscribe/unsubscribe system enables employees to choose or not to receive such communication. As reported in the daily publication Liaisons Sociales Quotidien of 06 December 2017, this agreement also sets the number of communications that can be sent per union body and per type of communication.
Putting an end to uncontrolled emails. In an interview with the daily publication Liaisons Sociales Quotidien, SNCF HR head Jean-Marc Ambrosini indicated that the means of communication currently employed by the union bodies, the company’s committees and the group’s central works council (the CCGPF, or Comité Central du Groupe Public Ferroviaire) were no longer digitally current. Signed in 2002, a system of bi-lateral charters were signed with every union organization and company committee, whi
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