The singer won at the prud’hommes. The Fort Boyard production company will have to pay nearly 10,000 euros in compensation to Francis Lalanne and return his character hat from the show, “Narcisse Lalanne”.
The singer sued before the prud’hommes of Rochefort (Charente-Maritime) the company Adventure Line Productions (ALP), which produces the programs Fort Boyard and Koh-Lanta, in order to have the contracts he signed from 2016 to 2019 requalified. broken abusively according to him by the producers, in CDI.
According to the deliberation made public this Thursday, May 12, the Rochefort court “requalifies the fixed-term standard employment contract as an indefinite-term employment contract” and condemns ALP to pay the sums of 3,247 euros in notice compensation, 1,200 euros in severance pay and 5,000 euros in damages.
strong boyar keeps the long wooden pipe
The Fort Boyard production company will also have to return the hat to the artist, who was part of the panoply of the character of “Narcisse Lalanne”, but will be able to keep the long wooden pipe that Mr. Lalanne also claimed.
“Jurisprudence moralizes the work of artists on these filming locations, such as Fort Boyard or Koh Lanta, where they are treated a bit like slaves by having them sign contracts without respecting the labor code too much”, reacted to the ‘AFP Me Emmanuel Ludot, who defended Francis Lalanne, absent during the deliberations.
This lawyer had also obtained the requalification of the contracts of Mister Boo, the character “mister muscle” of Fort Boyard, and obtained 17,000 euros in compensation for unfair dismissal. The case is currently on appeal before the court of Poitiers.
For Me Ludot, who is based on testimony at the hearing by Mister Boo reporting a discussion by Alexia Laroche-Joubert, the president of ALP, the eviction of Francis Lalanne from the show would also be explained by “his belonging to the movement of yellow vests”.
ALP’s defence, which disputes these facts, had for its part argued that the singer did not appear in all the shows and only recorded 17 appearances out of 42 shows before deleting his character.