Delocation of Lisi Automotive: when Morocco recovers the French industrial know-how

The decision is inevitable: by October, the Puiseux-Pontoise site will close its doors in favor of a transfer of activities, targeting Morocco in particular. In response, the employees of this specialist in automotive fasteners have relaunched a strike movement on Monday, March 23. They demand decent support from this publicly traded group.

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Bitterness largely dominates in the face of the current financial proposals. The extra-legal redundancy premium would only amount to 1,400 euros. Concretely, a worker with twenty years of seniority would receive around 40,000 gross euros. An envelope considered insufficient to project oneself, especially since the average age of the teams reaches 51 years, with very specific skills now threatened with disappearance.

Under pressure from the public authorities, the company has indeed offered 44 redeployment positions within its aerospace division. However, these offers arouse mistrust. They often require a complex move to the Bordeaux region or are limited to fixed-term contracts. Marked by this brutal rupture, the employees are very reluctant to face these alternatives.

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While the strikers already suspect a future real estate operation on the grounds of their almost stopped factory, the management is more optimistic. Vincent Quinaux, CEO of the branch concerned, assures that the discussions are progressing in a constructive manner. Negotiations with staff representatives could even resume as early as Thursday in an attempt to reach an agreement.