Sickness stoppages, incessant turnover, pressure for results… In a letter recently addressed to the mayor of Bondy and sent in copy to the Labor Inspectorate and to the Seine-Saint-Denis prefecture, the CGT union Local Mission and Ile insertion -de-France is concerned about working conditions within the local Bondy mission. This structure, fulfilling a public service mission, supports young people from the municipality aged 16 to 25 who are away from employment by helping them find a job or training.
In its letter, the union calls for a social and financial audit to be carried out on the functioning of this association labeled by the State and financed by the city, the department, the regional council, the State and the European Union. According to employees, at least fifty people have left the mission over the past five years, denouncing the management of their director, but also the very functioning of the structure.
Are the results “inflated” to obtain grants?
According to them, instructions would be given to “inflate” the results of the local mission and thus allow it to obtain more subsidies. “In a local mission, the more young people you follow, the more grants you receive. What’s crazy is that there are regularly absent staff, but we always meet our objectives 100%, even with employees who have just arrived, ”note employees.
When a young person signs up for the local mission, he signs a PACEA (contractualized support path adapted to employment and autonomy) which allows advisers to individualize as much as possible the project they propose to the beneficiaries. “In Bondy, we can open Pacea in a jiffy, without carrying out any personalized diagnosis on the situation of young people”, report employees.
The CGT calls for an audit
According to them, the Pacea, which can be spread over two years, would also sometimes be renewed automatically, without being the subject of an appointment with the young people concerned.
This is not the only grievance that is criticized against the director, who was also condemned in 2019 by the Bobigny correctional court to a fine for “obstructing the performance of the duties of staff representative” following a conflict with the Synami-CFDT union.
“We would like the town hall to launch a financial audit to verify the expenses of the local mission, because there are things that raise questions. For example, the manager had a kitchen built for him on the premises. He made the mission pay his traffic fines and used the structure’s blue card to do errands which had nothing to do with his duties, ”they accuse in particular.
No evidence of dysfunction, according to former deputy mayor
If the local mission is headed by an employee, it is on the other hand chaired by an elected official from Bondy. Namely the mayor of the municipality Stephen Hervé (LR). “Before the municipal elections, we had already grasped the former majority on the subject, but it had given nothing. On the contrary, the director has always been supported by the town hall. Now, with the new majority, we are waiting for the file to advance, ”say employees. Under the former mandate, it was Sylvie Badoux, deputy mayor (PCF), who supervised the local mission.
The latter said to have never received “any proof of any dysfunction of the structure” and recalls that the “accounts were validated by a chartered accountant and an auditor”.
390,000 euros of subsidy for the year 2020
For his part, the new mayor Stephen Hervé – who had already been administrator of the mission for several years as an elected member of the departmental council – explains having launched an administrative investigation following reports from employees, which did not day of malfunction.
“The figures and the results show that the local mission is rather efficient,” he insists. The town hall of Bondy has also just renewed a grant of 390,000 € for the year 2020 during the last municipal council.
Contacted, the director of the structure does not wish to comment on “slanderous accusations”.
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