The Banque de France unions intend to request an investigation after a new employee suicide last week, the third in a few months, AFP learned on Tuesday from reliable sources.
For the moment, nothing suggests that a professional reason was the origin of this gesture, according to these sources.
In a press release, the CGT, the central bank’s leading union, wishes to broaden the investigations and requests an investigation into all suicides of colleagues since 2019.
Speaking about the latest case, we intend to request an investigation to clarify the causes, confirmed to AFP Frdric Pianet, elected to the National Autonomous Union of Staff of the Bank of France (SNABF-Solidaires), the second union of the bank.
The information available to us at this stage seems to show that no professional alert had been noted, specifies an internal note from the Bank of France communicated to employees on Tuesday, and which AFP was able to consult.
We can sometimes have doubts, this only seems to be for personal reasons, declared to AFP Yannick Guillemaud, member of SNABF-Solidaires and staff representative on the General Council, the equivalent of a board of directors. , form the bank.
Three weeks earlier, the unions had decided to launch an expertise after two employee suicides in June, one of which directly pointed out in a letter the share of responsibility of his employer.
The governor had at the same time announced the launch of a so-called Well-being at Work action program, according to him more useful than voting for a union alert across the entire Bank.
This plan, which must involve management, agents and elected staff members, will begin with surveys in all the group’s professions and will include a component on workload.
The CGT criticized this plan in its press release, which it considers to be a counter-expertise by management, while Mr. Pianet, from SNABF-Solidaires, hopes that there will be complementarity between the two expertises and that this plan will lead to concrete things.