In Belgium, there are concerns about the relocation of certain services to Morocco

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In Belgium, there are concerns about the relocation of certain services to Morocco

The SETCa union denounces gradual layoffs at WBCC in Herstal. The organization is concerned about the transfer of several services to Morocco, to the detriment of local employment in the Liège region.

The social situation is deteriorating within the WBCC call center, a subsidiary of Orange located in Herstal and Seraing. According to La Dernière Heure, the SETCa union denounces a strategy of "pearl-like" layoffs aimed at circumventing the Renault law on collective dismissals. The workers’ representatives point to a "skimming of the workforce" in small waves, plunging the employees into growing uncertainty about their future.

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This reduction in workforce is part of a relocation movement already underway abroad. Several group services have indeed been transferred to Morocco, Tunisia or even Moldova. The SETCa, which had already warned about this issue in December 2025, condemns the "unraveling" of a company employing hundreds of people and calls on the shareholder to "stop playing with people".

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Faced with this bleak future, employees are demanding concrete guarantees on the sustainability of the site in the short term. The union delegates are now appealing to the political world so that it uses the public shareholding held in the group to stop these gradual departures. For the delegation, it is urgent to protect industrial and service jobs in the Liège region.