The SFR inter-union calls for a strike on November 3: the Paris court dismisses the operator's CSE from an interim action in the context of the takeover project
In a decision rendered on Monday, the Paris judicial court dismissed all of the claims brought by the CSE via summary proceedings launched as part of the proposed sale of SFR to its three competitors, Bouygues Telecom,…
The representatives of SFR employees, who had taken legal action regarding the information-consultation procedure carried out by their management in connection with the sale of the operator, had their requests for interim relief dismissed. In a decision rendered on Monday, the Paris judicial court dismissed all of the claims brought by the CSE via summary proceedings launched as part of the proposed sale of SFR to its three competitors, Bouygues Telecom, Iliad (Free) and Orange. The latter, united in a consortium, signed a memorandum of understanding at the beginning of June with Altice France, parent company of SFR, to buy the operator from it for 20.35 billion euros.
Following this agreement, the group's management opened an information-consultation procedure with representatives of the operator's employees. With this summary action initiated against Altice France and the three buyers, the CSE requested in particular to suspend this information-consultation phase as long as documents, particularly financial, had not been communicated. “It’s a shameful decision” But, in its decision, the Paris court considers that this procedure ended at the beginning of October.
It specifies that only the procedure on the merits, initiated by the CSE in parallel, can make it possible to extend it. This should give rise to a hearing in early December. “It’s a shameful decision,” reacted to Abdelkader Choukrane, secretary general of Unsa at SFR and elected to the CSE.
"We do not understand how justice can leave so many employees in the dark, on a project which will extinguish their business [...] We will take the time to analyze everything in order to appeal." When asked, the management of Altice France did not comment.
The SFR inter-union, which brings together Unsa, CFDT and CFTC, has also called on the staff of SFR, SFR distribution and the subsidiary Altice Technical Services (ATS) to strike in the company on November 3, to try to influence the discussions initiated with buyers on the fate of employees.
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