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After the owners of the Lejaby lingerie factory in Yssingeaux won court approval in January to fire about half their 450 employees in France and shift produ
by maybird 14y ago
After the owners of the Lejaby lingerie factory in
Yssingeaux won court approval in January to fire about
half their 450 employees in France and shift production
to Tunisia, the company found itself thrust into the
center of this year’s campaign.
So Tunisians are to France what Mexicans are to us?
- TazeTSchnitzel 14y agoReplace "Tunisia" with "foreign country with cheaper labour", and "France" with "other countries", and you'd be about right.
- dusing 14y agoThere is fundamentally something wrong with needing to go to court to get permission to fire your employees.
- ernesth 14y agoThere would be something fundamentally wrong if your employees could not go to court to contest their being fired.
- wlievens 14y agoIf fired for an urgent reason, without compensation, then surely. If fired with a sensible (defined by law) severance package, then absolutely not.
- wazoox 14y agoYou don't need permission to fire an employee. You need permission, however, to fire a significant part of your workforce at the same time. Typically you must justify it (for instance because your revenues dropped), and you can't fire in group again until after 18 months have passed. These rules made much more sense when they came into application mostly during the forties. Back then, just after the war, there were good reasons to be wary of the industry owners, who massively "collaborated" with the Germans (because you know, business is business), and deem them guilty until proven innocent.
- Wilya 14y agoI wouldn't limit it to Tunisia, and would include the whole Maghreb, but yeah, it sounds kind of accurate.
- wazoox 14y agoSomewhat. As former colonies, many Tunisians and Moroccans speak French (most educated ones do, at least), therefore it's a preferred outsourcing destination for French companies, particularly for services (call centres and the likes). To some extent, other former colonies like Senegal and Madagascar profit from this too, but they're much farther away from France than Tunisia and Morocco (which are 2 hours away by plane and 24 hours away by boat) and have much less infrastructure to support industrial development (such as roads, ports and a decent electrical grid).