Question 20477 — employment and activity

Summary

Mrs. Sabine Rubin draws the attention of the Minister of the Economy and Finance to the serial destruction of French jobs carried out by the Bich family, the very large majority shareholder of the company BIC, for several months. In January 2019, the pen manufacturer had already announced the relocation, in the summer of 2019, of several dozen jobs to Tunisia, where it already has a production site. As part of the Invent the Future project, it also announced, on Thursday June 6, 2019, the elimination of four hundred and fifty jobs worldwide by 2021, including around a hundred in France, at the Clichy headquarters. This time, it is in Sofia, Bulgaria, that part of the positions will be recreated, with the stated aim of efficiency, in order to make savings which can be reinvested in long-term innovation. But how can we not see the deception rude which consists of talking about investment to mask the tyranny of dividend eaters? Because it is to satisfy the latter, whose profits have been decreasing for several years, that operations are moved to countries where work is sold less expensively. The height of irony is that management has retained, for several months, the services of the expensive consulting company McKinsey for this purpose. She asks him if he intends to let profitable companies destroy, in a blind pursuit of short-term returns, what remains of French industries for a long time to come.

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