Spanish company sentenced for abuses linked to posted work

In a court (illustration) -

The version delivered to justice by the workers was heard.

A Spanish temping company, Laboral Terra, which posted foreign workers for the French agricultural sector, was ordered Tuesday to pay several thousand euros to five former Moroccan employees for various irregularities in salaries and medical monitoring.

"Fraudulent deductions from wages, paid vacation allowances never paid", wages calculated without respecting the legal minimum, absence of a medical examination, are among the facts for which Laboral Terra - now in liquidation - was condemned, according to the judgment of the Arles labor courts (Bouches-du-Rhône).

"Maybe an animal was treated better than us"

"This justifies what the workers were saying, that their rights were not respected," said Me Yann Prevost, lawyer for two of the workers, Yasmina Tellal and Karima (who preferred that her last name not be published) .

"Maybe an animal was treated better than us," said the latter during the hearing on June 16, speaking of her work for Laboral Terra in farms or French agricultural trading companies until 2016.

The industrial tribunal rejected a “fraud” in the secondment contract itself, but stressed that “the employer fails to provide proof that he paid the employee according to the hours worked”.

Several French companies, users of these workers posted to Provence, have been jointly condemned for these abuses, in the event of failure of the Spanish company.

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• Arles

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• Posted worker

• Agriculture