On Monday, employees and the CGT section of the Cargill factory, in Haubourdin in the North, launched in cooperation with several CGT unions from other regions a website intended to identify social plans.

"Stoplicenciement.fr", which counts 112 social plans to date, also aims to help employees defend their rights.

Employees and the CGT of Cargill in Haubourdin (North), as well as several other regions, officially launched on Monday a website, "Stoplicenciement.fr", in order to identify social plans throughout the territory and to help employees concerned to unite to defend their rights.

"This initiative is part of the base and Cargill Haubourdin with several CGT unions from other regions (Pays-de-Loire, Rhône-Alpes, Midi-Pyrénées ...) to stop the social breakdown in France", explained to AFP Dorian Vallois, CGT union representative for Cargill Haubourdin, where a PSE could lead to 186 layoffs out of 300 people employed in total by the American giant in the trading and processing of agricultural raw materials.

A desire to "organize collective initiatives" 

"We have very big fears for our future and that of future generations. It is a question of helping the employees concerned to come together and unite," he added, after a presentation of the site by videoconference.

In addition to a graphic map listing the social plans (112 listed to date, including Auchan, Axa, Courtepaille, Luxfer, GE, Michelin, Bosch ...), the site invites employees and unions concerned locally to register in a database of data that allows them to be linked and brought together to "organize collective initiatives", according to Dorian Vallois.

Nearly 57,000 breaches of contracts considered since March

The site also presents a "bill" which would oblige employers in particular to justify the real reason for redundancies.

The number of job protection plans (PSE) has reached 394 since March, against 249 over the same period last year, according to the latest statistics from the Ministry of Labor.

As part of these PES initiated from March 1 to September 13, nearly 57,000 terminations of employment contracts are envisaged in total, according to the same source.