Employees mobilized to denounce this recruitment to the group's strategy department.
Published on 02/12/2024 12:49
Updated on 02/12/2024 12:58
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Bayard backtracks. The group decided, Monday, December 2, not to recruit Alban du Rostu, former right-hand man of far-right billionaire Pierre-Edouard Stérin, as director of strategy and development, in the face of protests. of a large part of the employees.
“Alban du Rostu, aware of the situation created by his appointment, proposed to renounce his entry into the group. We salute his very great sense of responsibility, and mutually agree not to proceed with his hiring to put end to the unjust campaign of which he was a victim. We will miss his recognized skills in the areas of development and his great human qualities.specifies Bayard in a press release.
The management of the Bayard group recognizes decisions which have given rise “concerns and misunderstandings”including the planned recruitment of Alban from Rostu, against whom the employees had voted on Tuesday in principle of a strike. They were also worried about the announcement of the Bayard group's participation in the takeover of the ESJ Paris journalism school, alongside several media owners, including the reactionary businessman Vincent Bolloré. In its press release, the group announces “leave the ESJ Paris round by reselling [sa] participation”.
The group also asserts that “the position of development director will be filled” and that a supervisory board will meet on Wednesday “to discuss these decisions and proposals”. “Our independence is not negotiable. Our open-mindedness which leads us to create fertile links between all without exception, in the pluralism of everyone's opinions and the refusal of extremism, is not either”concludes the group.
