The Court of Cassation confirms the conviction of “La Dépêche du Midi” for its hiring at a reduction | EUROtoday

After lengthy years of authorized battles, Toulouse journalist Claire Raynaud gained. On January 29, the Court of Cassation rejected the attraction of the administration of La Dépêche du Midiand confirmed that there’s certainly a hyperlink of subordination between the journalist below contract with dispatch News and La Dépêche du Midiin addition to a scenario of coemployment.

The regional every day press group La Dépêche du Midi (SA) must pay practically 100,000 euros to Claire Raynaud as a recall of wages and paid go away relating, below RTT, compensation for hid work, to not point out 1 000 euros in damages for the SNJ (National Syndicate of Journalists), which was a volunteer intervening by his facet. After being profitable on attraction, M^me Raynaud and the SNJ due to this fact receive the ultimate conviction of the employer.

On attraction, the court docket had demonstrated “The artifice of hiring through the Dépêche News,” press company “, even though it is the role of the group, which exercises the prerogatives of the employer, which is thoroughly thwarted”. For 4 years, from 2015 to 2019, the journalist acquired a 30 % decrease wage and didn’t profit from RTT. It is that this bypass of the collective settlement that the Court of Cassation has due to this fact simply confirmed. For Olivier Cimpello, former union consultant in Toulouse, “It is neither more nor less social dumping, the newspaper employing journalists for several years with a completely illegal status”.

“Merchanting offense”

By creating the company dispatches News, with the standing of a press company, the group, lengthy led by Jean-Michel Baylet, now president of its board of administrators, avoids the wages and benefits fastened by the collective settlement. After checks carried out by the labor inspectorate, it was the Toulouse prosecutor’s workplace that had seized the file in 2021.

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