Paris (AFP)
"It's indecent": Philippe Martinez, the general secretary of the CGT, castigated the decision of Carlos Ghosn, the former CEO of Renault, to resort to industrial tribunals to claim his retirement indemnity.
"I think of all these employees who were on the industrial tribunal against Renault in the time of Carlos Ghosn. I do not know if that makes them laugh, this kind of situation", he reacted on LCI.
"It is indecent! We must stop with Carlos Ghosn, who has cut tens of thousands of jobs in the Renault group ... with a lifestyle and an adequacy," he added.
"He is someone who massacred employment, industry and who wants to go to the industrial tribunal like an employee who was dismissed for example at Renault", added the union leader, himself a technician at Renault Boulogne-Billancourt.
"If it weren't as bad, it could make you smile," he said.
As a former Renault employee, Mr. Ghosn applied for interim measures to the industrial tribunals at Boulogne-Billancourt, the company's headquarters in the southwest suburbs of Paris, to claim payment of his severance pay at the retirement, a dispute concerning an amount of nearly 250,000 euros. A hearing is scheduled "late February".
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