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Employees of the company which was to propel a train to more than 1000 km/h report late payment of salaries. The labor courts have been contacted.
Thomas*, in his twenties, left his job as a mechanical engineer at Hyperloop TT at the beginning of April. He had not been paid for two months. The young man started working for the Californian company in June 2023. He gave his former employer one week to regularize his situation. Afterwards, he will refer the matter to the industrial tribunal. “I preferred to leave to look for a job in a company that will pay me at the end of the month. When I announced my departure, management implored me to stay and that when the money came in I would get a raise. I don’t believe it,” says Thomas.
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The company opened its European research center in Toulouse at the end of 2017. It left it a few months ago to settle in Italy. The young man was one of the last employees of Hyperloop TT in France. According to him, there are only four left.
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“The motivations of the industrial tribunal are lunar”
Laëtitia* is still in post. But since the end of February, she has been on sick leave. From 2021, a year and a half after his hiring, his monthly salary of 3,000 euros was paid late. In 2022, for several months, she received nothing. She contacted the Toulouse industrial tribunal in February 2023 for unpaid wages and requested judicial termination of her employment contract. Before the hearing, his employer updated him on the payments.
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On Thursday, March 7, the courts rejected his request on the grounds that the “non-payment of salaries results from the result of Covid and that the employer did not voluntarily evade its obligations in an unfair manner” and that “since March 2023, salaries have been paid regularly”. For Maître Patricia Boldrini, the lawyer for Laëtitia, Thomas and another HTT employee, the “motivations are lunar”. “They are all the more questionable as the employer has again committed breaches. At the start of 2024, new unpaid debts are to be deplored. The jurisdiction forces Laëtitia to work for Hyperloop TT and to continue to be subject to uncertainties regarding salary payment dates,” she says. Laëtitia appealed.
