The employees of the automobile foundry MBF Aluminum in Saint-Claude, in the Jura, are taking legal action. They seize the president of the court of appeal of Dijon and ask for the suspension of the implementation of the liquidation, pronounced by the commercial court on June 22.
The Lons-le-Saunier (Jura) public prosecutor’s office opened on June 24 an investigation for misuse of corporate assets, relating to “movement of suspicious funds from the company MBF from Saint-Claude to other economic entities”, as well as on “remuneration not proportional to the results of the company and benefiting the manager or his relatives”.
Today, it is the employees, represented by the company’s social economic committee (CSE), who voted for an appeal to the Dijon Court of Appeal. They ask the justice to reexamine the file, said Nail Yalcin, CGT delegate and member of the CSE.
This appeal will not be examined for several months, said the lawyer of the CSE, Georges Meyer, “However, we urgently need to have a decision, because the liquidator must dismiss the employees within the next fifteen days.”
Another procedure was therefore initiated by the CSE: it seized the first president of the court of appeal to request the suspension of the liquidation procedure, pending the appeal decision.
Obtain a reprieve
“The objective is to obtain a stay, so we will put forward serious means, as well as the excessive consequences that the liquidation decision may have”, said Me Meyer.
In this context, a hearing is scheduled for Tuesday at 9 a.m. before the first president of the Dijon Court of Appeal.
The town hall of Saint-Claude (Jura) is associated with the CSE approach, announced the mayor of the city, Jean-Marie Millet:
“The liquidation decision impacts 1,000 people, including families”, lamented the chosen one, “that means that the city will lose the population who will go to work elsewhere”.
Judicial redress in November 2020
MBF, highly indebted, had been placed in receivership in early November 2020.
The Dijon commercial court declared on June 22 the liquidation of the company, which manufactures engine casings and gearbox parts. He had ruled out the only takeover offer, which provided for the takeover of around 200 out of 270 employees.
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