"A page that is turning for employees and a technological shift to be confirmed," the Force Ouvrière union communicated on Thursday about the LafargeHolcim cement plant in Contes, near Nice.

The social and economic plan (PSE) has been approved by the Regional Directorate for the Economy, Employment, Labor and Solidarity (DREETS) PACA.

The 65 employees "will now embark on a new stage and will be able to benefit from aid, which reaches € 125,000 on average per employee," adds the union.

A deal therefore concluded, after several twists and turns. At the beginning of February, the private Swiss group announced the closure of its factory in the Paillon valley, in “a strategy of transition to low carbon”. In May, a local company made an offer to take over the site and all of the jobs, two days after the PSE closed. At the beginning of July, a dozen employees had still not taken a decision and had expressed the view that they had not "received complete information concerning their future". The large group had finally decided: “We are not resellers. “Indeed, the site will serve as a waste depot and distribution platform for their local customers, with production made in Marseille.

FO assured that the ambition "zero employees at Pôle emploi" would become reality by stressing that "the PSE of Contes [should] not be yet another plan but indeed a technological marker in the service of a shared industrial ambition".

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