Last February, Corsica GSM employees learned that the operator SFR was ending its collaboration with their company, endangering some 80 jobs in the company. No reclassification solution was then proposed by the operator, who had chosen another service provider, with its own jobs and premises, to distribute the red square mark..
This Wednesday, the employees were present in front of the industrial tribunal of Bastia, where they sued SFR: “We lived three or four months in uncertainty before Corsica GSM decided to launch its independent operator project. We were afraid of finding ourselves unemployed, and this is what we want to denounce today before the industrial tribunal, explains Sébastien, employee for nine years, some have been there for 20 years. However, we know that SFR’s new partner in Corsica did not want to take us over, so we could not have continued in the telephone. Although there are competing operators, there would not necessarily have been places, and something else would have had to be found. “
If Corsica GSM is indeed the employer, SFR, as a partner and parent company, did not make contact at any time with the employees, either to offer them another collaboration, or to tell them that it did not wish reclassify them. An attitude emphasized by employees: “We had no direct communication from SFR, from the sales people. The only information we had was given to us by Mr. Antonini (CEO of Corse GSM, ed.) »
As soon as jobs have been safeguarded by the creation of Socodi by the independent operator born from Corsica GSM, employees expect recognition of the damage they have suffered: “We are waiting for recognition, because we almost put 80 people on the floor without any qualms. “
Unsurprisingly, there was no conciliation this Wednesday morning, but the employees are still optimistic that their request will be successful: “SFR, for 26 years, has benefited the Corsos de Corse GSM and its employees, argues Anthony Paoloni, Commercial Director of Socodi, SFR got richer and continued to earn money. Today they have decided to rob us for the benefit of unscrupulous Corsican business leaders. “ A social dumping in local version.
“I am waiting for SFR to be condemned by the industrial tribunal of Bastia in the same way as it was in another region. SFR must be considered as a co-employer. Taking into account the way of managing the shops, namely that we have no autonomy for hiring, or for the furniture or the choice of shops, details Louis Antonini, CEO of Socodi, SFR intervenes on a daily basis in the life of our companies, so it must be considered as a co-employer, and, as an independent company, we are considered by law as branch managers, and as such, my employees are also the employees. by SFR. “
Employees therefore expect recognition, but also compensation in connection with the moral and financial damage they have suffered. As conciliation did not take place, the case will have to be argued.
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