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The maids at Ibis-Batignolles have been on strike since July for better working conditions. Here, another hotel chain in Paris, May 27, 2016 (photo illustration). MATTHIEU ALEXANDRE / AFP

Twenty or so maids at the Ibis-Batignolles hotel in Paris, a hotel belonging to the Accor group, have been on strike since July against their working conditions and the use of subcontracts. On Thursday, 12 September, they demonstrated near the offices of Marlene Schiappa, the Secretary for Equality between Women and Men.

While coming to make noise under the windows of the Secretary of State for Equality between women and men, the strapless chambermaids want to warn about their working conditions. Rachel, employee of the STN, subcontractor of the hotel Ibis Batignolles: " Outsourcing is abuse. We do 30, 40, 50 rooms a day. And overtime is not paid .

" We want to be hired "

The CGT hotel trade union, at the initiative of the strike, denounces the inaction of the government. " Today, it is the employees who say, we do not want more outsourcing, explains Tiziri Kandi, host CGT-HPE (Prestige Hotels and economic). We want to be hired. "

" Employees have understood that outsourcing is the commercial contracts that are systematically revised downwards, and that says contract downwards actually says repercussions on wages and working conditions," he says. she. And that, unfortunately, Mrs. Schiappa and the Macron government in general do not want to hear it . "

A report on the situation of the chambermaids

Affirming that outsourcing is not his responsibility, Marlene Schiappa commissioned a report to the Superior Council of professional equality on the situation of chambermaids.

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