The distributor has announced its intention to appeal this decision.
The Evry court on Tuesday ordered retail giant Carrefour Hypermarkets to pay 18 million euros to the CGT for failing to comply with an order requiring it to suspend a disputed work organization plan, a-t -we learned Wednesday from the union. Because of “difficulties“encountered by Carrefour to execute a first injunction of November 2020, the Court of Evry ordered the payment of this sum”for the liquidation of the provisional penalty“, According to his order consulted Wednesday by AFP.
In October 2020, the CGT had summoned Carrefour Hypermarkets before the judge in chambers of the Évry judicial court to suspend the implementation of a work reorganization plan, called “Project Top“. This project had been launched by the boss of Carrefour France Rami Baitieh, who presented it in December 2020 in the media specializing in mass distribution LSA as a means of “erase irritants to satisfy customers” at the store. For the CGT, which is calling for its abandonment, it is “of a project of social regression and damage to the health and safety of workers».
Noting “the existence of a manifestly unlawful disorder“, the judge in chambers ordered in November 2020”the suspension of the implementation and deployment of the Top project in establishments/hypermarket storesfrom Crossroads. Justice also asked Carrefour “to carry out, by involving the staff representative bodies, the assessment of the professional risks inherent in the Top project“and accompanied his assignment with a penalty payment”of 30,000 euros per day, per violation noted and per store». «Carrefour did not take this into account and in March, when it expired, we went back to court to ask for the penalty to be lifted. Given its magnitude, the judge decided on a mediation that we accepted, but which did not succeed“, explained to AFP Patrick Ait-Aissa, national CGT delegate of Carrefour Hypermarkets.
Contacted by AFP, Carrefour announced Wednesday its intention to appeal this decision. “Indeed, Carrefour strictly applied the initial decision of this same court by carrying out, within the time allowed, an in-depth assessment, and shared with the staff representatives, of the impacts of the Top project“, explained the group. “This decision does not call into question the continuation of the Top project“Said the French retail giant.
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