The Airbus' Commercial Aircraft business has been abruptly halted by the crisis in air transport. Several tens of thousands of job cuts globally were planned before the summer, including just over 4,000 in France. After an initial round of discussions on the scope of this redundancy plan, French management and trade unions agreed to negotiate cost-cutting measures in order to reduce or even cancel the planned layoffs. As a result of these discussions, on 12 October two agreements were secured with the group’s majority trade unions, the FO, CFTC and CFE-CGC. The signatories are relying on a combination of the mobilization of the recently created form of short-time working known as ‘long-term short-time’ (l’activité partielle longue durée (APLD)), voluntary departures, and employee redeployment, in order to avoid social breakdown.
The agreement on ‘long-term short-time’ working (APLD). This new system of partial activity aimed at companies that have been durably impacted by the current crisis (c.f. article No.12083) must be the subject of a company agreement. The APLD agreement signed on 12 October at Airbus provides for long-term short-time working arrangements to be set up as of 01 January 2021, which can run for a maximum of 24 months, accommodate a reduction in working time that is capped at 40%, and which can apply
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