The social enterprise BVA, based in Coinsins (VD), will cease its activities in September. All 83 employees are being made redundant.
The Foundation Board of BVA (formerly Bureau vaudois d’adresses) announced on its website that the company is facing “serious financial difficulties” and that “its viability is no longer guaranteed.”
He added that he must “resolve to putting an end to BVA’s activities and to dismiss all 83 people currently employed by the Foundation.”
According to the newspaper La Côte, the layoffs concern 63 people with physical or mental disabilities or social difficulties, as well as around twenty employees who supervise these people.
BVA benefits from the support of the Vaud Directorate for Integration and Solidarity (DIRIS) to find new jobs for employees. “We are doing everything we can to ensure that all those affected by this layoff can find work in the best possible conditions,” says Gérard Mojon, Chairman of the Foundation Board, quoted in La Côte.
Financial problems
BVA offered various services: sending advertising, storage, packaging of products and even computer data entry. A social enterprise with a commercial vocation, it offered employment and training to people often excluded from the job market.
The company had announced in May that it was facing financial difficulties, due in particular to the decline in its direct marketing activities. A consultation period, which ended on June 14, did not result in finding solutions. “If we continued in this way, there would have been a hole to fill of around 750,000 francs at the end of the year,” adds Gérard Mojon.
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