• The Court of Cassation rejected the appeal of the Mowi group, sentenced in 2020 for the dismissal of 111 employees at the Poullaouen site in Finistère.

  • For justice, the dismissal of these employees was "without real and serious cause".

  • The global farmed salmon giant will have to pay 2.8 million euros to its former employees.

This is a new victory for the former employees of Mowi, formerly Marine Harvest.

The Court of Cassation on Wednesday rejected the appeal of Mowi Bretagne, a subsidiary of the Norwegian world leader in farmed salmon, sentenced two years ago for the dismissal in 2014 of 111 employees at the Poullaouen site in Finistère.

On October 8, 2020, the Rennes Court of Appeal confirmed that the dismissal of the employees was "without real and serious cause".

The year of the decision to close the factory, in 2013, the Norwegian group announced 400 million euros in profits and acquired the world number one in salmon processing, the Polish company Morpol.

In its judgment, the Court of Cassation considers that "the economic cause of a dismissal is assessed at the level of the company or, if it is part of a group, at the level of the sector of activity of the group in which she intervenes.

The perimeter of the group to be taken into consideration for this purpose is all the companies united by the control or influence of a dominant company without there being any need to reduce the group to companies located on the national territory”.

The files of twenty other employees under investigation

The Labor Court of Brest had condemned in September 2017 the group to pay the employees, including two executives, between six and twenty months of salary depending on their seniority.

“In total, it is 2.8 million euros that the world number one salmon will have to pay to the 111 employees under the cumulative convictions”, reacted in a press release Roger Potin, lawyer for the former employees, welcoming “d 'a great victory' for them, after being 'unfairly dismissed for the sole purpose of greater profitability for the group's shareholders'.

The files of twenty other employees of the Poullaouën factory, dismissed in December 2015, are under investigation before the Rennes Court of Appeal.

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