After the setbacks of the “Téléfoot” channel and the restitution of TV rights for the L1 and L2 championships to the Football League, the Spanish group Mediapro filed a PSE aimed at dismissing almost all of its 85 employees in France, 14 are concerned on the Montpellier site.
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Mediapro employees in Saint-Georges-d’Orques, in the metropolis of Montpellier, have formed a collective. All are covered by the Employment Protection Plan presented by the audiovisual production company Mediapro France. This would mean the closure of the Hérault site and their dismissal.
The collective denounces the methods of Jaume Roures, Managing Director of Mediapro.
The management presented the elected officials with a totally ridiculous unilateral PES at minimum in relation to the financial power of the Group and refuses to negotiate with the unions, even though Jaume ROURES had made the promise to support his French employees as best as possible. It is not so ! We are kicked out with a big kick!
A gathering in Nîmes
The collective will be mobilized this Tuesday in Nîmes, in front of the Parnassus room where the Nîmes-Chekhov handball match will be played in the EHF Round of 16 return of the European League. Because it is these employees who were to ensure the television broadcast of this event. But according to the collective, “the management has just canceled all future benefits for fear of strike action. It has deplanned all permanent and intermittent employees.”
Employees think they will be replaced by OB vans and teams from Spain or Portugal.
Mediapro rejects the fault on Canal + and beIN sports
Jaume Roures defends himself against the accusations of the employees.
“I consider unfounded your criticisms of the PES project which is currently being discussed with your elected officials as part of the consultation procedure. And I will not speak or qualify the media and trade union campaign that has been launched against me on this subject. “explains the leader.
Like you, I can only regret that this adventure ended so abruptly and that even our efforts to redeploy Mediapro’s activities in France, despite the shutdown of the Téléfoot channel, failed in the face of the refusals of Canal + and beIN. to continue to work with us for the production of the French Football Championship.
Management accuses unions and collective of not playing the game of dialogue. For her, “no one will come out a winner from an endless PES and a legal guerrilla war” …
A consultation with employees began on March 18, “to improve the PES over the course of discussions and negotiations”, it should last 2 months.
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