Truck Driver Wins Labor Court Case After 20 Years Without Pay Following Workplace Heart Attack

Lahcène, 62, wins his case against his former employer Suez Recyclage & Revalorisation, a subsidiary of Sita. This heavy goods vehicle driver had suffered a heart attack in September 2001 while performing his work. The following year, he will be declared unfit by the occupational physician. As a result, he will not resume it. The doctor then recommended a reclassification of his job to a position adapted to his fragile health. But Recyclage & Revalorisation did not take this recommendation into account. The company should then have dismissed the truck driver. Which it did not do. Attached to the company, Lahcène remained without a salary, without reclassification, without a job for 20 years. Two decades during which he received 552 euros per month from the CPAM and the CAF.

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At the end of 2020. Suez Recyclage & Revalorisation invites him to a career meeting, but does not offer him any new position. "I was never talked about reclassification," Lahcène said last November. His situation is getting worse. The company finally fires him in September 2021. He then decides to take the case to the Cergy-Pontoise labor court. On June 27, the sexagenarian obtains justice. The court recognizes his prejudice, and condemns the company to pay him 155,036.23 euros, reports Le Parisien. A sum that is far from satisfying Lahcène. The man had claimed 720,000 euros, including nearly 610,000 euros in damages, last November during the hearing.