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The departures, roughly equivalent to buyouts, are part of 2,200
voluntary job cuts planned this year, down from 2,670 in 2017, a
company spokesman said, confirming comments by a CFTC union
representative. The figure excludes thousands of new hires and
job eliminations by attrition.
The Peugeot maker is among a first handful of companies to make
use of the new flexible labor measures introduced by decree
within months of Macron's election last May.
Unions have criticized the so-called collective contractual
termination agreements, which let companies negotiate layoffs
without having to prove they are in financial difficulties.
Clothes retailer Pimkie is seeking union approval to cut 208
jobs under the new measures.
Besides the voluntary job cuts at PSA, the Paris-based carmaker
aims to hire 1,300 workers on permanent French contracts in 2018
along with 2,000 younger staff on internships or time-limited
work-study contracts.
"The number of new hires and voluntary outplacements will
therefore be balanced," the company said in a statement.
(Reporting by Gilles Guillaume; Writing by Laurence Frost;
Editing by Leigh Thomas)
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