Former posted agricultural workers claim 120,000 euros from their former bosses

Four ex-detached agricultural workers claimed around 30,000 euros in damages each, Wednesday in Avignon, from the managers of the Spanish temporary work company Laboral Terra. The latter had been sentenced in 2021 to five years in prison, three of which were suspended, in particular for concealed work.

In September 2020, before the industrial tribunal of Arles, these employees had already obtained that Labor Terra pay them several thousand euros for various irregularities in their wages or their medical follow-up.

“Forgotten Victims”

The judgment then referred to “fraudulent deductions from wages, (des) paid leave allowances never paid” or wages calculated without respecting the legal minimum. On the other hand, the four former agricultural workers had not attended the criminal trial, before the criminal court of Avignon, of Diego Carda Roca and Sonia Ferrandez Fullera, the two spouses at the head of the Spanish company, for lack of having been warned, according to their lawyer. They had therefore not been able to constitute civil parties.

“These are victims who have been forgotten”, pleaded for them on Wednesday Fatma Ferchichi, recalling that the criminal investigation had started after the complaints of two of these employees, “whistleblowers”. Deploring that they were never heard during the investigation, Me Ferchichi questioned the “dysfunctions” which prevented them from attending the trial: “It was through the press that our clients learned of the condemnation”.

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