France: jobs and career management agreement criticised as cover for offshoring at Danone

In March 2024, Danone announced in a press release the launch of the DanSkills global initiative, a training programme with €100 million of funding to train 100,000 employees and power 2,500 new positions. In France, this initiative, which is intended to “reaffirm Danone’s social ambition”, was followed by the signing of a forward-looking agreement on the management of jobs and career paths at the beginning of July. This creates an Observatory of Professions and Skills, responsible for defining four categories of role: developing, stable, sensitive and critical. It includes a number of support commitments for the last two categories, which comprise those roles under threat or set to disappear within the next two years.…