Within the Earta company, on the Voivre-les-Le-Mans site -
JEAN-FRANCOIS MONIER / AFP
The Earta company employs some 220 disabled workers in Pays-de-la-Loire.
She fears losing her business of managing unsold newspapers, which represents 45% of her business.
The company Earta, which employs 220 disabled workers in Pays-de-la-Loire, requested Wednesday its placement in receivership, after the loss of an activity of management of unsold press for the former Presstalis messenger, announced its leader Wednesday.
“I made the request this (Wednesday) morning to the Nantes commercial court.
We are awaiting the appointment of a receiver, ”said Didier Rio, boss of the company.
“We have started to take away the management of part of the unsold products and that will continue.
The company must be under the protection of the court so that there is no social damage, ”he added.
Founded in 2001, the Earta company welcomes workers with disabilities who are often victims of cranial traumas which have resulted in these people being partially unable to work.
At the Sarthe sites, for example, employees receive, sort and package some of the unsold magazines and newspapers and prepare the other part for recycling.
"If it stops, we're dead"
Provider of SAD, a subsidiary of ex-Presstalis, Earta ensured the management in the region of the recovery of unsold newspapers.
The liquidation of SAD and the sale of Presstalis threaten this activity, according to the manager, Didier Rio.
“Today, the management of unsold products represents 45% of our activity.
We don't know how to do without.
If it stops, we're dead, ”Didier Rio summed up.
The most exposed site is that of Voivres-lès-le-Mans (Sarthe) where “50 employees” work for France Messagerie, which succeeded Presstalis.
A meeting on Earta is to be held Thursday morning at the Ciri (interministerial committee for industrial restructuring), which depends on the Ministry of the Economy, to which Didier Rio has decided not to attend.
Symbolic march
In August, a “symbolic” march to challenge local elected officials and public authorities had led employees to the Champs-Elysées.
They had notably received the support of the deputy (Liberties and Territories) Jean Lassalle.
"We are not with folded arms," said Minister Delegate for Industry Agnès Pannier-Runacher to the National Assembly on September 15, in response to a question from PS MP Sylvie Tolmont.
"The tax liability, the social liability is particularly high (...) in the light of the efforts we have made to help the company", added the Minister.
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