Ten years after the closure of the Brodard Graphique printing works in Coulommiers, and after a long legal battle, 65 former employees of the plant will share more than 3 million euros in damages, or about 50?000 euros per person, revealed La Parisien in an article dated October 16, 2020.
A victory that some employees no longer believed in. Out of the 150 or so employees who filed a complaint with the industrial tribunal after the closure of the site, only 65 were still involved in the proceedings, some of whom have now died.
Lawyer Philippe Brun, who has been fighting for more than 25 years against redundancies undertaken by healthy factories, was delighted in his daily life with this final court decision.
" ?Un social plan must be proportionate to the means of the group, otherwise it is considered abusive. We've been saying this from the beginning. The dismissals had no real cause and sérieuse?" he told the Parisien .
The end of the Brodard Graphique printing company
In July 2010, this subsidiary of the Maury Group specialising in the printing of magazines and catalogues on web offset presses closed its doors for good, resulting in the loss of 190 jobs.
Confronted with the fall of the printing market, its owner, Jean-Paul Maury had declared to the commercial court a few months earlier that he could not mortgage the future of his group by supporting the Brodard printing works at arm's length.
The only possibility of continuing the business, which lay in an offer to take over the Franco-Dutch printing group CirclePrinters, failed to convince the court, leading to the liquidation of the company.
