Ousted from the show Des Ciphers et des Lettres, Arielle Boulin-Prat and Bertrand Renard hope to overcome their legal action against France Télévisions.
The news had the effect of a thunderbolt. At the start of the 2022 school year, Arielle Boulin-Prat and Bertrand Renard slammed the door the show Numbers and letters at the request of France Télévisions. The new version of the program, still presented by Laurent Romejko, migrated at the same time to France 3 to be broadcast there on weekends. “In short, far from wanting to leave or leave the show, it’s good France Télévisions where we have worked for so long who chooses to separate from us, to make a breakup alone that was never asked of her. […] We did not refuse the supposed new version of the game, since it was never presented to us”, then released the two ousted hosts, reports Here is. What is modestly designated as a contractual disagreement arose because France Télévisions demanded a reduction in our salary of the order of 60% and refused to grant us the permanent contract that we had the presumption to demand.”
Linked to France Télévisions by a CDDU contract (fixed-term contract) for more than thirty years, Arielle Boulin-Prat and her comrade had unsuccessfully asked their employer to sign a permanent contract : “We do not exist even though we are on the air every day. This regularization was sharply refused to us, without explanation. It is unacceptable humanly before being unacceptable legally”. A year after wiping a referral to the Industrial Courtthe tandem must face a new setback in fortune. The Parisian reveals that the court once again referred the case to a commission of five judges. “We want this to stop and be able to move on”despairs the former professor of classicsat the microphone of our colleagues. The situation is getting bogged down for the duo loyal to the position and to the audiovisual group which fired them.
What are Arielle Boulin-Prat and Bertrand Renard claiming?
This Friday, January 26, Arielle Boulin-Prat and Bertrand Renard once again tried to win their case before the Industrial Tribunal, located in the 10th arrondissement of Paris. Several contentious subjects were put on the table, notably conditions “vexatious” of their dismissal (by videoconference), the ageism of which the complainants, 68 and 70 years old, claim to have been victims or even a drop in salary estimated at “60%”. On the side of France Télévisions, we maintain that the two animators had never “contested their working conditions” and even less the “50,000 euros” per year with which they were rewarded for only “three days of filming per month”, an argument in favor of the usual CDDU. Laurent Romejko’s ex-colleagues will have to be patient between “18 to 24 months” until a majority decision is made. According to the Ile-de-France daily, “the four industrial tribunal advisors decided at the beginning of the evening to have the case reheard by a panel of five judges, including a career magistrate.