The Post office is expected to hire more than initially expected this year. According to labour Force, the management of the public enterprise would have agreed to increase its recruitment efforts on the latter half of 2019, within the framework of the commission of monitoring of the agreement on employment signed in 2017, has revealed les Echos. therefore The company should recruit a total of 4000 factors in the CDI this year, which represents a significant increase in membership, of the order of 6%. Contacted, the group did not wish to comment.

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This decision is the fruit of lengthy negotiations between management and employee representation, which had started in may 2019. According to FO, the management had accepted the principle of a series of meetings following a call from the union describing t at the time the situation as "intolerable for the entire staff of the e-mail". For its part, The Post that the Figaro has contacted, confirmed that it will continue its recruitment external factors in the CDI on the last quarter of 2019, and reminds us that this has been the subject of trade, with a commission of follow-up, with the trade union organisations are signatories of the social agreement on the trade of factors of February 2017

last year, The Post office had already revised its recruitment on the rise in the same proportions (4300 recruitments at the end of the year). Yet, as for a long time now, the volume of distributed mail continues to decrease. Last year, the mail weighed more than 28% of the turnover of the group, and fell by 7.3%. "This is the largest decrease ever recorded in a year," responded then Philippe Wahl, CEO of the group.

But this decline "does not fundamentally change the size and the duration of tours specifies the direction of The Station, questioned by The Echoes. Similarly, with the development of home delivery and the market of the parcel is in full bloom (+4.3 per cent last year).

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But The Position is, above all, in the face of a demographic problem of size. According to the social balance sheet of the company, nearly half of the postal workers are older than 50 years. These hires will not be able to compensate for the many departures with the retirements expected in the year. Last year, the public company had recruited only 8574 people on permanent contracts, to compensate for the departure of 11.885 officials and employees, permanent contracts.