In 2013, a courier employed by a subcontractor of colipost is dead. The public company had been ordered on appeal to a fine of 60,000 euros for illicit labor loan. Seydou Bagaga was neither declared nor paid.
Le Monde with AFP
Eight years after the death of a subcontractor of colipost, the Court of Cassation canceled, Tuesday, October 5, the condemnation on appeal of the post office. In 2019, the public enterprise had been sentenced in the first instance, by the Nanterre Court, a fine of 120,000 euros for illicit labor loan. The following year, the Court of Appeal of Versailles confirmed the conviction but had, however, reduced the fine to 60,000 euros.
In a judgment made on Tuesday, the Court of Cassation noted that the post office had been indicted for “illicit loan facts of labor and bargaining aimed at a single employee”, but returned to the Tribunal For facts “regarding all employees employed as driver drivers”. The procedure must therefore be “regularized” and a new trial will have to stand before the Court of Appeal of Versailles, he tried.
Employee or declared or paid, devoid of employment contract
Seydou Bagaga, a 34-year-old courier of Malian nationality, succumbed on January 8, 2013 after falling in the Seine three weeks earlier in Boulogne-Billancourt (Hauts-de-Seine) by trying to recover a parcel. He had dropped into the river during a delivery on a barge.
The investigation had shown that Mr. Bagaga, who had just obtained his residence permit, was neither declared by his employer DNC transport or paid, and did not have a contract of employment. The dealer, coliposte, could not ignore the situation. The investigation had also shown that the regularization of its situation had been made only one hour after its death.