The request for six French sites whose activity has been suspended, has been received Thursday by the administration that confirms to have refused.
Amazon has asked on Thursday the part-time unemployment for six French sites whose activity has been suspended, a request denied by the administration, it was learnt on Monday from the direction of the american giant of the logistics and the ministry of Labour.
The directorate said that it had “made a request for partial unemployment for six sites, approximately 10 000 people, which has not resulted”. The ministry confirmed that it had received a request “Thursday” and have refused, without more of precision.
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“the recent decision of The Court of appeal of Versailles has obviously had an impact on our activity in France (…). In this context, we have also applied for assistance, as have been able to benefit other companies in France”, pointed out the direction of Amazon in an e-mail.
Amazon has been summoned by the court of appeal of Versailles to conduct a risk assessment related to the crisis of the sars coronavirus with the representatives of the staff and reduce its activity by then under penalty of a fine of 100 000 euros for alleged offences. The group has preferred to close its warehouses until may 5, inclusive.
Request “indecent”
“indeed, our logistics business is technically complex and the financial penalty of 100,000 euros per offence, as specified by the court of appeal, could imply that even a rate of small accidental treatment of non-permitted, of the order of 0.1%, could result in a penalty of more than a billion euros per week”, explained the executive.
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“Unfortunately, this risk means that we have not had other choice than to temporarily suspend the activity of our distribution centres in france while we evaluate the best way to operate in the light of the decision of the court,” she added. The trade unions CGT, CFDT and SUD, Amazon France had proposed at the direction of a gradual recovery of activity.
In a statement, they qualify as “properly indecent” the application of partial unemployment, Amazon and point out that “this system was put in place to help the employees of businesses whose activity is rendered impossible in the period, such as catering or shops non-essential”.
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“More than that, Amazon has made the choice to temporarily close its warehouses from the 16th April last, while continuing its activity since those europeans, in order to better avoid two judicial decisions of successive” are upset-they.