As the beginning of the school year approaches, the CGT union calls to boycott the supplies of Papetier Hamelin denouncing the employees of the employees of a subsidiary in Charente, “without resources” after a social plan followed by judicial liquidation.
In February, the group based in CAEN, one of the European leaders in the sector, closed its place of Lecas Industries in Nersac near Angoulême, by dismissed 69 employees as part of a work safeguard plan (PSE).
The unions had negotiated several support measures, but their implementation has been suspended since the compulsory liquidation of the company at the end of June.
Do not serve “a chief chief” denounces the CGT
“The subsequent allocation (paid by the State to the families according to their income, note of the editor) should not be used for a thug pattern,” he accused the CGT in a press release when asking for boycotting the brands and notebooks of Oxford, the student or conqueror, among other supplies sold by Hamelin.
For the union, when located in bankruptcy, the group wanted to “escape their obligations” towards the employees dismissed in the framework of the PSE.
Without compensation, without salary, without training, without the possibility of registering for unemployment, he explains. “We cannot do anything, we have no resources, unless we are in the conditions of a PSE that took four months to negotiate.”
Hamelin accused of “cessation of artificial payments”
Contacted by AFP, president of the Hamelin Group Management Board, Éric Joan, “I sincerely deplora” a situation whose group, according to him, “cannot be absolutely responsible.”
The intervention of the labor inspection “to prohibit the dismissal of nine protected employees (staff representatives, editor’s note) has created a position unable to assume,” explains the manager, while wages and PE “were going to be totally backed by the company’s residual assets and the National Salary Guarantee Fund” (AGS).
Maître Ralph Winchauer, employee lawyer, defies “a cessation of artificial payments” and has seized criminal justice for “fraud”.
Caen’s prosecution appealed to the decision issued by the city’s commercial court. The audience date is not yet known. Employees hope, ultimately, that justice will cancel the liquidation and apply the PSE.
In parallel, 55 of the 69 licensees seized the industrial court by demanding wages and unpaid assignments since June.
Source: BFM TV
