They had to wait for the ten years of proceedings and wait for the Court of Cassation seized by their former employer to come and give them reason. On Monday, the courts ruled in favor of 18 former employees of La Poste and ordered the French company to pay them 1.3 million euros.
According to France Bleu, the procedure was started in 2012 when La Poste closed the Belem sorting center, in the Chantenay district, in Nantes (Loire-Atlantique). Opened fifteen years earlier, the center employed around thirty civil servants and employees on permanent contracts, but also several people on fixed-term contracts and a few temporary workers. During these fifteen years, the most precarious employees will accumulate more than 4,000 employment contracts. But six months before the sorting center closed, everyone had been let go. The unions believe that this decision was taken in all conscience, so that they are not integrated into the social plan. A situation deemed abnormal by the main concerned, who had seized the industrial tribunal with the support of the unions in 2012.
At first instance, La Poste was ordered to pay more than 800,000 euros to 18 former employees. A penalty revised upwards by the Rennes Court of Appeal and finally confirmed at 1.3 million euros by the Court of Cassation. Other procedures are in progress at the prud’hommes, precise West France.