Justice validates the layoff of an employee for eating a fruit at work

In 2017, he had eaten a clementine at his near post. The Redoubt is accused of "potential deterioration in the chain".

"I am stunned by this decision ! I was looking for justice but can not find it," responded Smaïl Bella, is an employee of the company La Redoute, which denounces this Friday, "a society in which it dehumanizes the employees in the companies". He had been laid off in 2017, for having eaten a clementine near his workstation, and challenged the labour court of Roubaix this sanction. It has been rejected.

On 7 November 2017, the preparer of order and representative CGT entered The Redoubt in 2004 had to be up at 4: 30 to take his position at the site, logistics of Wattrelos (North) for 6 hours, and had eaten a clementine shortly before 9 o'clock.

A clementine to 70 euros

It was then in its position of "picking," a place where the employees lined up on a string of production take into bins, the imported goods and the scan to send to clients, at a rate of 600 gestures at the time, according to the CGT. At this time, a "micro-failure" would have stopped the chain. He then declined to eat, "on a bench" according to him, his fruit outside of the pause time (scheduled from 10 a.m. to 10.20 a.m.), before you put the peel near his post, "due to the lack of trash."

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Spotted by the officer program, he is laid off a day, losing 70 euros gross salary. The management had highlighted the risk of a "potential deterioration of the chain".

"We take snacks, otherwise we would not hold"

Seized by Smaïl Bella, the conseil des prud'hommes de Roubaix was therefore "validated" the sanction on Thursday. "As a union representative, Mr. Bella had to be aware of the instructions given by the company", justify the judges in this decision. They indicate that "similar facts" had already been alleged against the trade unionist and stressed its "commitment to the questioning of the rules".

"I'm being criticized for having, two months previously, took a candy that I've eaten in 10 hours. But, in our team, everyone is the hideout for dining, even on the toilet ! We take snacks, otherwise we would not," assured Smaïl Bella, announcing his intention to appeal.

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in Mid-June, this same council of prud'hommes had ordered The Redoubt to be withheld on wages, the time to travel to the place of pause, a distance of 4 to 5 minutes to areas of production.