A social plan providing for 2,389 job cuts at Auchan, concluded in March between the company and several unions, was invalidated by the Lille administrative court, it announced Tuesday, September 23 in a press release. This decision does not increase the reinstatement of dismissed employees, but could, if it became final, pave the way for compensation before the industrial tribunal of employees who seized them.
The administrative court considers that the job safeguard plan (PSE), concluded at the group level, “Should have been signed by union representatives of each of the five components of the group” Auchan. The administrative court also considered that the procedure for the information and consultation of the social and economic committees had been marred by a procedural defect.
The Administrative Court considers that AUchan Retail France has “Bounded to communicate [aux représentants du personnel] data relating to the economic situation of the whole formed by all the companies placed under the control of the Surraumarché company ” holding “Almost all of the capital of Auchan Retail France. »»
A thousand people have already found “a solution”, according to Auchan
However, according to the administrative court, “This information should have been more extensive and include the data of the three companies which exercise joint control over the Surraumarché company itself”Acanthe, Valovest and Cimofat, three of the main companies in the Mulliez galaxy.
The Mulliez Empire, including other brands like Decathlon or Leroy Merlin are in much better financial health, does not constitute a group itself, but a galaxy with a complex structure, mixing civil societies owned by the family and holdings managing the brands.
At the end of the hearing, which was held on September 10, Auchan had assured the France-Presse agency that its ‘PSE n’[était] absolutely not questioned as such, its quality and its content do not debate ”. Auchan also ensures that 1,000 people affected by the PSE “Have already found a solution to date”including 320 internal reclassations and 100 employees taken up.
