Almost immediate backpedaling. The Casino group had sent letters to nearly 900 employees to request salary advances paid almost 30 years ago, our colleagues from France Bleu revealed this Thursday. The announcement aroused incomprehension among employees, who ultimately won their case.
The Casino group, recently bought by Czech billionaire Daniel Kretinsky, wanted to recover these sums before the final sale of its stores. These salary advances, which ranged from a few hundred to several thousand euros, dated from the 1990s, when several companies were bought out. Management finally indicated this Thursday afternoon “to give up the recovery of overpayments”.
Employee anger
Hundreds of employees had previously received a letter notifying them of this regularization. At first, the group accepted its decision without batting an eyelid. “The document formalizing the salary advance provided for its due date at the time of the employee's departure. A regularization which is done on the last pay slip,” he told France Bleu.
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Receipt of the mail thus provoked the ire of the employees. “I thought it was settled. What I don't understand is why in all these years, Casino hasn't asked us for them? I don’t find it fair,” regretted an employee of the Salon de Provence Casino (Bouches-du-Rhône), from whom the group was demanding 450 euros, interviewed by the local media. After a few hours, management finally reversed its decision.