The CGT has humiliated me I ha e been soiled

Two months a ter the end o the occupation, which lasted three months, by workers without papers o one o its Parisian restaurants, Bruno Druilhe, Manager o the sign in dad, not urious. "We ha e been in a turmoil which the State was ery hypocritical, no one helped us." The CGT has humiliated me, I ha e been soiled. I recei ed emails o insults rom customers I dealing with sla e and salopard while I ha e always abided by the law. My employees ha e presented me residence permits legal hiring, but which were not their. "I' e enabled them then to obtain a regularization by making the necessary steps with the Pre ecture", explains Bruno Druilhe, which owns three institutions on the dozen that teaches and employs 50 employees, o whom 23 were working under an assumed identity.

Since last April and or the branches that they make approaches to regulation or economic reason to pre ectures, under the Act o No ember 20, 2007, the strikes and occupations by workers without papers multiply at the initiati e o the CGT. Temping agencies specialized in the building, cleaning companies or o pri ate security, restaurants, they are more than 60 independent institutions or belonging to groups subject to high-pro ile occupations. According to the Union, these con licts, o which hal is still underway, led more than 900 adjustments. "Circular o January 7, 2008, issue o article 40 o the Act, No ember 20, 2007, States that employers can get desrégularisations on economic grounds in trades that,"without be included in the regional list o trades in tension, are particularly acute recruitment problems in the basin o employment concerned".". "It is o ten those that occupy the employees without papers and most employers are aware o their situations," explains rancine Blanche, Secretary o the CGT charged o the rights o the employees. Moreo er, she pointed out that some 20 contractors ha e agreed to sign an agreement committing them to hire time ull-time or contract employees, to respond to the pre ectural requirements which di er rom one Department to another.

"Exceptional situations".

Illegal immigrants would be between 200,000 and 400,000 in rance. According to the CGT and the C DT, the ast majority o them work, while or employers ederations rom areas o cleanliness, building or sa ety, massi e hiring a labour A rican or Asian, these situations are exceptional. "It should di erentiate the black work that we denounce, the hiring o illegal immigrants under an assumed identity." These situations are exceptional and, in this case o igure, the employer is deception. "It is each to take the decision to a process o regularisation," explains André Daguin, ormer President o the Union o the hotel industry, the Umih trades, emphasizing that these employees were o ten addressed by the Anpe. Large groups o these sectors, picks the inger requently by the Urssa or the black work, generally re use to communicate on these issues and, as a general, when an employer learns during a pre ectural control in this situation, one o its employees is his irst impulse is to break the contract o employment to a oid prosecution. "These situations are exceptional." "I had 10 cases in three years and I then laid o the employees concerned," con irmed Philippe Jouanny, President o the Ile-de- rance society o cleaning Neo a, 500 employees.

"On a case by case"

Small businesses, the speech was more nuanced. E en i employers also plead good aith, they point out that recruitments are especially di icult or these pain ul and despicably skilled positions. "The human and economic dimensions must be taken into account." We are against a massi e regularization and that these cases are treated on a case by case. "Some o these employees work in these conditions or more than ten years," explains Jean-Eude du Mesnil du Buisson, the Secretary General o the CGPME, who is currently conducting a sur ey to a State o a airs on this issue in its di erent ederations.

or Johan Le Go , leader o Konex, a company o 10 employees in computer wiring, it is ob ious that employers hiring with a prestant o employees or se eral years, mostly know their situation. ort o this inding and to change the law, he has created last April the GERS, the Group o employers or the regularization o their employees. "We are about 50 to be directly in ested, but we ha e a network o 300 business leaders, mainly SMEs." Our goal is to collecti ely de end the olders with the pre ectures, we ha e i e to six current records. It is ital or us, I ha e an employee in this situation, and I can no longer accept some commands or labour. "We also want to be the set o criteria the same or all", explains Johan Le Go , who like unions denounced the silence o the major groups, when one o their pro iders is a ictim o a media occupation. According to him, inasmuch as they impose inancial conditions and drastic times, this problem is also to grasp as one o the most harm ul consequences o subcontracting o cascade.