The requisition of personnel in the Seine-Maritime refinery, in the midst of a fuel crisis, was not found to be illegal
. On the other hand, those concerning a laboratory located in Rennes, yes. The Prefect of Ille-et-Vilaine had issued, this Thursday, October 13, 2022, an order to requisition staff from the United Biology Laboratories (LBR) until Tuesday.
A violation of the right to strike
This decree concerned 55 of the 160 employees of the laboratory in the conurbation. Employees who were responsible in particular for screening tests for Covid-19. The order had been issued when a call for strike had been launched, to demand wage increases to compensate for inflation. It had been challenged by the National Federation of Chemical Industries CGT and the National Federation Force Ouvrière de la Pharmacy.
Justice estimated, this Saturday, October 15, 2022, that the extent of the strike would not have massively prevented the Rennais to go to a laboratory if they needed to. She believes that the prefect carried “a serious and manifestly illegal attack on the fundamental freedom constituted by the right to strike“.