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Employment: Sanifirst employees transferred to Portugal with a salary divided by three?
Employment: Sanifirst employees transferred to Portugal with a salary divided by three?
(France 2)
The Sanifirst company, a faucet manufacturer based in Charente, has decided to relocate to Portugal, the group saying it has been in financial difficulty for ten years. Management offered the nine employees a transfer to this country, for a salary divided by two or three.
The Sanifirst faucet factory, in Gond-Pontouvre (Charente), will close its doors. The nine employees will lose their jobs, unless they accept a transfer to Portugal, with a salary divided by two or three. “I earn 1,600 euros net per month, then I was offered 900 euros gross to go to Portugal.” deplores an employee. “Even if I am offered a salary of 2,000 euros I cannot. I have my family here, I have my parents here, I have my children going to school in Charente…”confides a man for his part.
Victor Costa, CFE-CGC union delegate at Sanifirst, particularly protests that the transfer proposal is being made “without any support for people who do not speak Portuguese“, neither “for moving“.
The law requires the employer to seek “all the possibilities of reclassification in France”, but proposing a transfer elsewhere in the world to avoid dismissal is also legal. What Continental proposed in 2010, or Philips the same year for reclassification in Hungary.
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