A hundred Conforama employees, according to the police, demonstrated Monday, December 12 in front of the store in Mably (Loire) where its FO union representative, presented by his organization as a “whistleblower” against harassment at work, was summoned for his dismissal.
“Walkouts and support rallies took place in different regions among the 7,000 employees of Conforama France in reaction to the proposed disciplinary sanction of our whistleblower colleague“, told AFP Gérald Gautier, secretary general of the trade section of Force Ouvrière.
“Toxic behavior”
According to him, the group’s management criticizes the FO delegate, also secretary of the Economic Social Committee (CSE) of the Center-South region, for having “denounced, in particular in the register of serious and imminent dangers, the toxic behavior of the manager of the Montluçon store“.
In this brand, employeeswould be in tears, under drug treatments, some of which present risks of wanting to take their lives“, underlined Mr. Gautier, affirming that the person in charge”had acted in the same way in its previous store, in Pau“. The management would have denounced facts “denigration and insults” during the interview prior to dismissal of the principal concerned, who “are not supported“, added for his part Mouloud Hammour, FO secretary of the CSE Central of Conforama France.
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A survey forbullying in the workplace“was opened by the Montluçon prosecutor’s office, “following reports from employees received since October“And another by the Labor Inspectorate, specified for his part the public prosecutor of the city Loïc Eyrignac.
According to the magistrate, several hearings have already taken place, “but not yet that of the store manager, currently on sick leave», and in parallel, another investigation was opened by the Labor Inspectorate. Contacted by AFP, the management of Conforama declared that it did not want to do “no comment» concerning the various proceedings in progress.
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