Question 15587 — businesses

Summary

Mr. Aurélien Taché questions the Minister of Labor and Solidarity about the actions of the company Chubb Fire and Security France, whose head office is located in Cergy, in his constituency. This company, owned by the American group APi since 2021, has been carrying out massive workforce reductions for several years. If some of these departures took place within a legal framework, in particular via a conventional termination collective concluded in 2023, it appears that a large number of other departures were organized outside of any legal framework, under cover of a secret internal project, called “Optima”. This project consists of methodically removing employees from all profiles and all functions, with the express characteristic that their positions will not be filled and will be eliminated. Dismissals are pronounced on spurious grounds, accompanied by individual transactions whose budgeted amount reached more than 900,000 euros for the year 2024 alone. Senior executives were forced to sign confidentiality commitments to prevent them from speaking out about these practices. These actions in all likelihood constitute disguised collective economic dismissals, carried out in violation of articles L.1233-8, L. 1233-28, L. 2312-8 and L. 2312-39 of the labor code, which require consultation of the social and economic committee and information from the labor inspectorate. An internal investigation report, produced by the Voltaire law firm in February 2025, confirms these practices and also documents serious harm to the physical and mental health of employees resulting from these managerial methods. The DRIEETS Île-de-France labor inspectorate was contacted in April 2025, but no action has been brought to the attention of the parties concerned to date, even though the practices denounced concern all of the company's sites on the national territory and are continuing. Consequently, he asks him if he intends to contact the general labor directorate as well as all the DRIEETS competent in the territories housing a Chubb Fire and Security France entity, so that a national investigation coordinated is carried out. He also asks him if he envisages, if the facts are confirmed, a transmission to the public prosecutor on the basis of article 40 of the code of criminal procedure.

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