The company insured for Orange the installation of the optical fiber and the maintenance of the copper network, within the framework of a contract ended at the end of March. A scopelec employee manifestation should be held on Thursday Place de la Bastille, in Paris.
Le Monde with AFP
In difficulty since the loss of a large contract with the Historical Telecom operator, the Orange subcontractor, Scopelec, prepares a social plan that could lead to the economic dismissal of 800 people, “said the Company Thursday, April 21, confirming FIGARO information.
“Management has expressed the project to bring together the social partners in the coming days to prepare for the implementation of a PSE [employment safeguard] which would concern 800 jobs” out of 3,600, said A spokesman for the company – the first cooperative of France in number of employees. An event of Scopelec employees must be held on Thursday Place de la Bastille, in Paris.
The company insured for Orange the installation of the optical fiber and the maintenance of the copper network, as part of a contract arrived at the end of March, and which accounted for 40% of its figure to estimated business at 475 million euros in 2021.
The subcontractor, which was notified in mid-November of the loss of this contract, believes that he had no war-running sign of Orange on the loss of the volume of business, and not having had time to prepare for it.
Avoid “One of the heavier social plans”
Since November, where 1,800 threatened jobs were mentioned, “700 people have either reclassified internally, or are parties in other companies that have won the markets, either left the area of telecoms,” continued the Spokesperson for Scopelec.
The associated employees of the company published Thursday in several newspapers an open letter to presidential candidates, Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen, as well as the candidates for the legislative elections, calling them to act to avoid “one of the heavier social plans for France for months “.
The company, in safeguarding procedure for a month, calls on the “actually accompanies in [its] social restructuring” and finances part of the PES, and that the shareholder state “plays the role of impartial referee “.
It intends to appeal the decision on Friday, April 15 by the judge of the Referrals of the Commercial Court of Paris, who had dismissed him with his request for extension of the contract with Orange, and “will also assign Orange on the merits Because the rupture of commercial contracts does not seem to us to respected the rules of commercial law, “she explained.