The third suicide in the space of less than four years upset internally. Several employees and the unions denounce a “loss of meaning”, “forced march changes”, and an “absence of pedagogy” on the part of the management.
by Brice Laemle
The fear of a “local telecom France”. The social discomfort crosses the regional daily belonging to the EBRA group (is Burgundy Rhône Alpes, media center for Crédit Mutuel Alliance Federal) is such that several employees of the latest news from Alsace (DNA) interviewed by MO12345lemonde do not hesitate to spontaneously quote The dramatic example of the predecessor of Orange, marked by a series of suicides during the years 2008-2009.
In less than four years, three employees of the Bas-Rhine company have committed suicide. The first, a 43 -year -old technician, jumped from the newspaper’s fourth floor in Strasbourg in December 2019; The second, a 57-year-old rotativist, had thrown himself from the fifth level of a parking lot very close to these same premises in November 2020.
The climate is again anxiety -provoking since the suicide of Chantal Dou, 41 years old, a customer relations assistant (ARC) at the Haguenau edition, one of the sixteen local offices. The collaborator, described by her colleagues as “very professional”, “perfectionist” and “smiling”, was in burnout. She ended her days at her home on January 17, when she was on sick leave, the fourth since the end of 2020.
“disguised social plan”
Worried, staff representatives have deposited a “serious and imminent danger alert” about the employees of Haguenau and all the arcs, fifteen employees responsible for the reception of readers in agency when they were thirty- Four in 2018. retirements, absences for sick leave and changes are no longer replaced.
“It is a disguised social plan”, is convinced a union official. From the COVVI-19 pandemic, three local receptions have closed on the existing sixteen. While additional tasks have been allocated to them, work overload has become common for this position not considered by management, according to this interlocutor.
A psychological unit was set up within the newspaper after the death of Chantal Dou, as well as a speech group in the local of Haguenau concerned by the drama. A delegation of joint survey (including in particular employee representatives, management and labor inspectorate) must now establish a report on the causes of this last suicide before presenting its conclusions before the Social and Economic Committee (CSE) in The next few weeks.
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