Up to 80% of temporary workers in a factory: Renault sentenced to an abusive resource to precarious jobs

The Renault car manufacturer was sentenced on Tuesday in Le Havre to a fine of 18,750 euros for abusive appeal to temporary workers between 2014 and 2018, according to the Office of the prosecutor of Le Havre. The SAS Renault, represented by Luca de Meo, general director of the company, and Jean-Luc Mabire, former director of the site, appeared for “provision of temporary employees for sustainable and habitual employment” between January 1, 2014 and December 31, 2018.

The survey, revealed in 2019 by the online research, the octopus, had discovered that “on average and monthly, 1,238 temporary workers were used on the site, mainly in sustainable and permanent positions linked to the production and habitual activity of the factory” between 2014 and 2016, according to documents consulted.

Visibility of orders for almost three months

The Sandoville factory, near Le Havre (Sena Marítima), which produced in particular the Renault Traffic, used last year 1,850 employees and 600 temporary workers. It is one of the three public services production sites in France for Renault, which manufactures one in six public services sold in Europe. Despite the reminders of the authorities’ order, he had still used in 2016 and 2017 more temporary workers than employed by permanent contracts, in proportions of up to 80% of the present workforce, according to the research report.

The causes of the time, director of the site and HRD, had explained respectively at the audience that was “very quickly exceeded” by “the increase in activity.” But the internal documents paid to the file by the CGT had revealed “books of complete orders with manufacturing orders up to 71 days three months in advance.” According to the research report, this “should have led management to another recruitment policy.”

Cited by The octopusInspectors of the Regional Directorate of Business, Competition, Consumption, Work and Employment (Directorate) identified temporary workers as “a very exposed population, the first victims of occupational accidents within Renault”.