Highly criticized for its management methods, the former Deputy Chief Executive Officer of the multinational has been defended before the parliamentarians. Accused of “walnut the fish”, he denies any bad practice.
Le Monde with AFP
Former Deputy Chief Executive Officer of the Orpea Group, Jean-Claude Brdenk, defended Tuesday 15 February his assessment before the National Assembly Committee on Social Affairs.
In the book investigate the graves, the Victor Castanet journalist, like “the zealous executor” of an “ORPEA system”, the manager for the exploitation and development of the group of medical retirement homes for profit Between 1997 and 2020 responded to what he considers to be “counter-truths”.
The members of the Social Affairs Committee asked him about the falsification of contracts or the abuse of residents mentioned in the book. Allegations refuted to block. “We have been the first to put in place a maltreatment prevention program,” said Jean-Claude Brdenk, mentioning the positive results of controls by the health authorities.
“I think I think been incorporated, fair and equitable “
Heard earlier in the day by the same commission, Elodie Marchat, Deputy Director General of the Solidarity Center of the Departmental Council of the Hauts-de-Seine, indicated that the accounting data available to his community did not allow to identify an abnormality. . At the EHPAD the banks of Seine de Neuilly-sur-Seine, particularly targeted by the accusations of Victor Castanet, the amount of expenses was “in accordance with the occupancy rate”, she argues.
Jean-Claude Brdenk has relativised the number of departures forced to disagree with the ORPEA cost reduction policy. “I think I have been incorporated, fair and equitable. I put in place all the necessary means” to the proper functioning of the institutions, he said, while recognizing the end of the lips could have been “clumsy”.
The person who left the direction of ORPEA in December 2020 for the Medical Bastide Group justified its severance pay for 2.5 million euros gross by presenting them as complying with the practices in force in publicly traded companies .
Parliamentary Inquiry Commission
“I had the impression many times that you drown the fish,” he asstered him the number two of France unsuitable (LFI), Adrien Quatnens. “Many points remained outstanding”, regretted the President of the Commission, Fadila Khattabi (the Republic in March, LRM), after three hours of hearing.
In a tribune published by Le Monde, some 70 deputies mainly on the left, the numbers one of the CFDT, Laurent Berger, the CGT, Philippe Martinez, and FO, Yves Veyrier, as well as representatives of the collectives of Families and staff, have again and solemnly “requested the creation of a commission of inquiry in the National Assembly.
“Only a parliamentary inquiry would make it possible to audition immediately and under oath the officers of the ORPEA group (…) and to be communicated any document that it would judge useful. Such guarantees would prohibit blurred and imprecise responses” , highlight the signatories, including presidential candidates Jean-Luc Mélenchon (LFI) and Fabien Roussel (French Communist Party, PCF).