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76 employees are affected by this decision. The management of Crédit Agricole announced its plan to close its administrative site in Bar-le-Duc (Meuse), transferring activities to Laxou, near Nancy, according to information from France 3 Lorraine.

Financial disagreement and lack of perspective for the Meuse site

According to Geoffrey Vizotsecretary of the CSE and SUD CAM delegate, The staff representatives had been informed about ten days ago. “The general director explained to us that he could not find an arrangement with the Chamber of Agriculture, co-owner of the building, with SAFER and the Chamber of Trades to renovate it. He informed us of a financial dispute which forced us to abandon our site in the Meuse,” he confided to our colleagues.

This closure is a hard blow for a region where job opportunities remain rare and for the 76 employees of the Meuse structure.

Elected officials opposed to the project

Local elected officials denounce the abandonment of rural areas by a bank that is historically attached to them. In one of these last posts on Facebook Bertrand Pancherhonorary deputy for Meuse, criticizes this decision. “Shocking and incomprehensible… We expected Crédit Agricole to support rural areas and not to bury them.”

Jerome Dumontpresident of the Meuse Departmental Council, also protests this decision on his Facebook account: “I cannot accept that a bank, with a rural and agricultural history and identity, suddenly decides to close its Meuse seat, and to abandon a territory like ours without any consultation. »

The senator Franck Menonvilleformer president of the local bank of Crédit Agricole d'Ancerville, points out in his press release “a betrayal of the mutualist values ​​of Crédit Agricole”, recalling “that the 1993 merger guaranteed the maintenance of the headquarters of Laxou, Metz and Bar-le-Duc “.

Abandoned rurality?

This closure comes in an already tense context for the Meuse. Less than two weeks earlier, the judicial liquidation of the Stenpa stationery in Stenay had led to the elimination of 124 jobs. For a department marked by industrial and agricultural decline, the loss of the Crédit Agricole headquarters symbolizes a new economic and social divide.

Following the announcement and as anger mounts, the regional management of Crédit Agricole remains discreet, only ensuring that reclassification would be offered to the employees concerned. A social and economic committee extraordinary is planned on December 13.

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