Ten years of fighting.
Ten years of legal proceedings and disappointed hopes, since that sad night of July 2010 which marked the end of a historic enterprise.
This Friday, 65 former employees of the Brodard Graphique printing house in Coulommiers, which employed 217 employees, received the long-awaited good news: they will each receive tens of thousands of euros in damages.
Me Philippe Brun, their counsel, gave them an appointment in the afternoon in the old courthouse of the town of Briarde.
The lawyer from Reims sports bushy eyebrows and a white beard well known to the commercial courts of France.
For thirty years he has been defending employees who are victims of so-called stock market layoffs.
65 other employees could have been compensated
“It's over and it's a great victory for the Brodards, loose Philippe Brun.
The Maury group [
Editor's note: the former owner of the printing house
] had let it be known that it refused to finance the social plan, which is against the law.
Each of the 65 employees will receive between 30,000 and 70,000 euros, which represents a total sum of 3,250,000 euros.
"
The final court decision, after a decade of legal battle from the Meaux Labor Court to the Court of Cassation, was taken on September 23 by the Paris Court of Appeal.
A slowness that scandalizes the lawyer.
“Since Hollande and Macron, social justice has become the slowest in France,” he protests.
Time is money.
This is all done with the aim of discouraging people.
Today, I am thinking of the 65 other employees who could have been compensated.
"
After several years of proceedings and first conflicting court rulings, half of the 130 ex-Brodard who initiated the proceedings gave up the fight before the cassation.
"Over time, some have lost confidence," regrets Philippe Brun.
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