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Coal mines: 726 "black faces" compensated after eight years of legal battle

2021-02-18T18:01:31.397Z


REPORT - The recognition of the failure of their former employer to fulfill its obligations to protect against asbestos, but also other carcinogens and toxins, could benefit many employees.


In Freyming-Merlebach, a town of 13,000 inhabitants in the east of the Moselle, the former management of the Houillères du Bassin de Lorraine (HBL) has nothing to do with the “large offices” of the early 20th century, characteristic of the old basins. industrial.

No bricks or freestone, but a bar with modern lines, built in 1964, recently renovated, recalling that coal mining did not stop here until 2004, fifteen years after the end of the last mines of Nord-Pas-de-Calais.

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250 meters from the old management, on the other side of the national road, a house houses the premises of the CFDT-miners.

The union staff orchestrated the Homeric fight of 726 Lorraine “black mouths” to have their prejudice of anxiety recognized.

A legal marathon of eight long years which ended on January 29 with a victory.

The Douai Court of Appeal (North) in fact recognized the prejudice of anxiety in all the individual cases submitted to it.

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Source: lefigaro

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