Employees of Pier Import liberated their leaders

After a night of negotiations on the conditions of termination, employees working in stores for liquidation of Pier Import released the CEO and general manager of the company since they were heard Monday night.

Reuters – Some employees of Pier Import included two leaders of the group on the night of Monday to Tuesday at company headquarters near Paris, to obtain better conditions of dismissal, have announced their representatives.

They were released Tuesday morning the CEO Sonia Ben Behe and CEO Gerard Démaret their offices Villepinte (Seine-Saint-Denis) after a general meeting where the employees have decided to continue the fight in other forms.

The group of furniture and decoration was placed into receivership last September, leading the fermteture 25 stores and 140 dismissals.

“We are awaiting a meeting with the shareholder. The stores will continue action and a strike was decided until Wednesday night at least,” he said on i> Télé Yann Drink, committee secretary Corporate Pier Import.

“For now the benefits that are proposed under the social plan are always at least, that is to say (…) one months salary for an employee who has five years
seniority, “Has he said.

The employees demanded a half month’s salary per year of seniority.

If they do not get satisfaction by Wednesday evening, “actions may become radicalized,” he warned Yann Drink.

The action of employees has been terminated by the Minister of Industry, Christian Estrosi, who “can not be any real negotiations when there is violence.”

With the crisis, the kidnappings of business executives have increased in France.

In January, four executives of a company from Swedish metal band Akers, Fraisse (Loire), were selected over 24 hours by employees who have finally succeeded on their benefits
redundancy and redeployment.

Christian Estrosi Tuesday advocated solutions “on a case by case” for employees.