• After the loss of contracts with its main customer, Orange, Scopelec estimates that 1,800 of its employees are under threat of dismissal.

  • Orange said the equipment manufacturer had lost some contracts due to breaches.

  • Bercy explained that the State would support the transfer of employees to the companies that won the contracts.

Nearly 1,800 employees of the equipment manufacturer Scopelec, a cooperative specializing in the deployment of telecom equipment whose head office is in the Tarn, are threatened with layoffs.

A social risk that comes after the loss of contracts with the operator Orange, its main customer.

“Today, it is the whole company which is threatened with death” and its model of cooperative society, worried Alain Tomas, the chairman of the supervisory board.

The latter is now appealing to the public authorities, in order to "get around a table to find solutions".

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– SCOPELEC Group (@GroupeScopelec) January 21, 2022

Asked about the subject, Bercy indicated that the Interministerial Committee for Industrial Restructuring was going to do everything possible to "transfer as many Scopelec employees as possible to the new recipients of the contracts lost by the group".

The Ministry of the Economy also explains that it will look into the future of the cooperative, and see if it “can find a profitable model with less activity and fewer employees, by the end of February”.

Despite the loss of contracts, Scopelec remains a major partner of Orange

The loss of subcontracting contracts with Orange is the cause of a 40% drop in Scopelec's turnover, estimated at 475 million euros in 2021. Established on more than 90 sites in France, it has approximately 3,600 employees and remains one of Orange's six "major" partners despite the loss of these contracts.

At the beginning of December, the president of the Occitanie region, Carole Delga, had asked the CEO of Orange “to reconsider his commitment to Scopelec to preserve up to 1,800 jobs in France, including 500 in Occitanie”.

The operator explained that after "several warnings in recent years, the quality of the services offered by certain current service providers, including Scopelec, which has received several dozen formal notices due to breaches in certain territories, has led Orange to review the attribution of the zones entrusted to each one".

Transfers to new service providers

The contracts lost by Scopelec went to the companies Solution 30 in Occitanie, Spie in Pays-de-la-Loire, Sade in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, as well as Vinci and Constructel.

Sogetrel, which specializes in fiber and very high-speed networks, for its part lost the Orange market in the North and Pays-de-la-Loire, and gained those in the South and South-West from end of March.

Its employees went on strike on Monday to protest against the transfers imposed on 600 employees in the North, Haute-Marne, Champagne-Ardennes, Normandy and Pays-de-la-Loire, explained Teddy Stevance, representative union at the CSE.

The management would like to send some of them to Occitania or Aquitaine, threatening dismissal of the refractory according to this CGT trade unionist.

Management told AFP that it had "established a social dialogue" in November, and offered training, around sixty local positions, and several hundred positions in other regions, on which "a hundred employees have positioned themselves”.

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