The global temporary employment giant is accused of having set up a registration system in a Parisian agency to exclude black workers from certain missions.
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More than twenty years after the events, the sanction fell. The Adecco interim group was cfined 50,000 euros for discrimination in hiring and racial registration by the Paris criminal court, Wednesday March 13. The court made its decision based on “a bundle of clues” allowing to establish “the existence of ethnic registration and discrimination” on the part of the temporary employment company against certain of its employees.
The Franco-Swiss group Adecco, as well as two of its executives, were sued by former employees and anti-racist associations for having set up a system of discrimination based on skin color, through the “PR 4” file, containing the names of predominantly black temporary workers.
“Filtering based on skin color”
The defendants, Olivier P. and Mathieu C., former directors of the Montparnasse temporary employment agency, were sentenced to a fine of 10,000 euros, of which 7,000 were suspended. The court recognized their involvement in this “filtering based on skin color” without having been at the origin, while not having “nothing put in place to put an end to it”. The prosecution had requested 50,000 euros fine and three months suspended prison sentence against the Adecco group and two of its Parisian executives. Adecco told AFP it was taking “act of this decision”adding lead “a resolute policy of combating discrimination for several years”.
