Number corresponds to 1.5% of the total number of workers in the group; company says the action is “part of a natural movement in the retail sector”
The supermarket chain Carrefour, which also owns Atacadão and Sam’s Club, is laying off 2,200 employees on the eve of Christmas celebrations. The number of employees dismissed corresponds to 1.5% of the group’s total, which has 130 thousand direct and indirect workers. The company did not detail the positions in which the layoffs were concentrated.
Carrefour stated, in a note to the newspaper that the layoffs “They are part of a natural movement in the retail sector and do not impact year-end operations or customer service.”. The chain also has gas stations and drugstores under its brand.
The company said that in October this year, it opened 6,000 job vacancies, which are still being filled. Among them, for bakers, butchers, packers, gas station attendants, stockers, cashiers, maintenance technicians and forklift operators. Hiring takes place in 20 Brazilian states and the Federal District.
Carrefour’s dismissal movement goes against the temporary hiring made by retailers at this time of year. According to projections from the Brazilian Supermarket Association, a 12% increase in consumption is expected for the period of the year leading up to the Christmas and New Year holidays, compared to the same period last year.
Recently, Carrefour was involved in a diplomatic crisis involving France and Brazil. Last month, the network’s global president, Alexandre Bompard, said that the French chain would no longer buy meat from countries that are part of Mercosur, as a way of demonstrating support for the country’s farmers. After 6 days of boycott by meatpackers in Brazil, encouraged by some politicians, the CEO sent an apology in a letter, addressed to the Minister of Agriculture in Brazil, .
