gull“Management offers vouchers as a social plan”
“This Monday, November 18, we buried the social consultation at Petits Riens. A management committee can therefore decide to dismiss 21 workers without any kind of consultation, stick to its positions despite an 8-day strike, and offer the dismissed workers vouchers from Petits Riens as a social plan. continue the unions.
“Back in the 1950s, when Christian charity allowed the bourgeoisie to ingratiate themselves by giving crumbs to the less well off“, they say again.
Workers also criticize the fact that Thierry Smets, former CEO of NewB, has surrounded himself with a team of former Decathlon employees and that the model is increasingly inspired by that of the chain specializing in sport.
Contempt?
“Contempt is expressed in every speech from a Codir and a board of directors completely in the West. Normal, here it’s the Wild West, where the bosses think they’re cowboys, but it doesn’t matter, because it’s for the common good, they tell us, and we have to take their word for it.“, continue the Christian union and Setca, affirming that the staff pays the bill for management’s errors.
“Brutal” restructuring plan at Petits Riens: “It’s the most unfair thing there is”
“If there’s something they won’t take to paradise, it’s the slogan you see in stores: Here, people before profit. Abbé Froidure must turn in his grave to see the way in which the humans who work every day at Petits Riens are treated“, they finish.
gull“Abbé Froidure must be turning in his grave”
Management defends itself: “We have no choice”
Contacted, management justifies its choices. “Our position is to put in place support. By setting severance pay higher than what the law provides for, for example. And there was never any offer of vouchers. But all possible solutions have been swept aside by the unions as long as we do not reinstate the 21 people. But it’s an impossible request to meet“, comments Thierry Smets.
Thierry Smets, CEO of Petits Riens
“The situation has deteriorated in recent years, reserves have been drawn down, there have been several crises, including that of textiles and energy. We are a social economy and the economic only serves to finance the social. We don’t pay shareholders. We do not pay bonuses to managers… If we take this measure, it is because we are obliged to do so to sustain our activity. It’s always unfair and difficult, we can understand it, but we have no choice“, he explains.
gull“We don’t pay shareholders. We don’t pay bonuses to managers. We are obliged to do it”
“The organization must become economically viable again as quickly as possible to ensure the continuity of its missions in the fight against poverty,” specifies the direction. Remember that the non-profit organization Les Petits Riens enables the socio-professional integration of approximately 500 people each year. “People outside the work circuit, who have been released from prison for example, who have no training, and whom we welcome with a team, which allows them to learn a trade, to provide a springboard“, specifies the manager when asked the question. These people are paid partly by the non-profit organization and partly by the CPAS, among others.
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