René-Abroid Care Center, in Paris, threatened with closure: “a huge shock” for employees

A possible compulsory liquidation risks leaving the 135 employees of this mutualist health establishment on the tile.

by Catherine Quignon

“A long series of improvisations and flight forward”: in a letter sent internally, on February 8, to employees of the René-Development Mutualist Health Center, the elected officials of the Social and Economic Committee (CSE) of The establishment have no hard enough words to qualify the management of their management, responsible, according to them, for his announced death.

Located in the heart of 2 e Parisian arrondissement, this establishment, which mainly welcomes press and communication professionals, has entered the cessation of payment on 1 > February. In order to rule on the fate of this health center, managed by the Mutual Umen, an audience at the judicial court is scheduled for Thursday, February 9. A possible liquidation threatens to leave on the tile the hundred and thirty-five employees of the center, frequented by around 75,000 people per year.

“It was a huge shock”: for this employee as for her colleagues, nothing, or almost, suggested such an fiasco. On the site of the Care Center, the recruitment offers for dentist, gynecologist, dermatology … have still not been removed. “When the statutory auditor triggered the alert on November 22, 2022, no one really worried,” vituates this member of the CSE who, like the other employees interviewed by MO12345lemonde, preferred to remain anonymous. Its patients pay the price of the difficulties crossed by the establishment: “As suppliers are no longer paid, I have patients who no longer receive their prostheses”.

deficit from one to two million ‘euros per year

“We were told that the mutual would participate in the filling of deficits, that they would look for new partners. But they have not found it,” deplores one of his colleagues. In the eyes of the elected officials of the staff, the start of the end dates back to the exit of the Giron Mutual Umen of the Audiens group, in 2017, for governance issues.

According to union representatives, the care center then experienced, from the first year, a deficit up to one to two million euros per year, for an annual turnover of around ten million. “In five years, we had five directors. We have 34 % turnover here: that is to say if there are management problems,” quips the member of the CSE.

In bulk, the mail addressed to the staff by the elected officials of the CSE is criticizing “non -competitive suppliers or without competition”, “inappropriate recruitments”, premiums paid without real justification and a “lack of anticipation “concerning the management of the establishment. The center “continued its expensive lifestyle in the hope of finding partners … without result”. Solicited, the management of the care center did not wish to express themselves.

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