They worked without pay slips or employment contracts on the various construction sites of the Olympic sites. Ten former undocumented workers are awaiting recognition of their work, but the hearing before the Bobigny industrial tribunal, which was held at the beginning of the month, was postponed until December 6. But the ccell investigation of Radio France revealed this Tuesday that they would be ten times more in this case, which was admitted by Solideo, the public body responsible for supervising the Olympic projects.
“We have identified around a hundred people working illegally,” confesses Antoine du Souich, director of Solideo, to Radio France. Despite the monitoring of these construction sites, it seems that the construction sector, already particularly affected by this problem, is out of control. Jean-Albert Guidou, a tax inspector who became secretary of the local CGT union in Bobigny, explains to the investigation unit. “They are ephemeral in nature with a share capital of only 1,000 to 2,000 euros. They don’t have any equipment. Their headquarters are mailboxes, sometimes located at the manager’s home. At worst, a company will be liquidated.”
A Franco-Turkish network supplying clandestine labor
Currently, fourteen other undocumented workers have taken their employers to the industrial tribunal. This new dispute concerns eleven additional companies, at least nine of which have also been placed in liquidation.
Radio France also discovered the existence of a Franco-Turkish network which is at the origin of these ephemeral subcontracting companies, which mainly employ workers from the Malian, Gabonese, Senegalese, Congolese or Mauritanian diasporas of Île-de-France. -France through word of mouth.