Houria Aouimeur-Milano, notably accused of not having complied with the obligations relating to the public procurement, disputes the decision and supports, by the voice of his lawyers, that it is an act of “Reprisals”.
by Bertrand Bissuel
The sanction, which was expected, has just fallen. Houria Aouimeur-Milano, the national director of the wage guarantee regime, was dismissed for “gross negligence”. Remembering so far, this disciplinary measure has been notified on February 23 by invoking “serious shortcomings”: expensive lifestyle, services concluded in defiance of the rules, etc. The questioning disputes the decision and supports, by the voice of its lawyers, that it is an act of “reprisals”, after the reports which it made on serious drifts within the sector where it evolves.
The wage guarantee regime, known under the AGS acronym, constitutes a singular entity in our social protection system. He ensures the remuneration of women and men employed in companies in difficulty (recovery, liquidation, etc.). The sums are made available to legal representatives who then redistribute them to the staff concerned. The governance of the system falls to “the AGS association”, in which representatives of employers’ movements are exclusively sitting – including MEDEF, which has a preponderant weight. Concrete operations are carried out by the UNEDIC AGS delegation (DUA), which is an “establishment” of Unédic, the association managing unemployment insurance.
At the end of 2018, M me aouimer-Milano is named at the head of the DUA. A few months later, an audit produced by the EY cabinet revealed dysfunctions likely to engage the responsibility of the predecessor of the national director, Thierry Météyé. This one is criticized – among others – for having assigned “massive and abnormal” files in a lawyer to a lawyer. He is retired and then dismissed for gross negligence.
A first series of complaints is filed in March 2019 by several protagonists, including Medef and Unédic, for “theft, corruption and illegal interest”. Very quickly, suspicions of embezzlement extend to other actors – in particular administrators and legal representatives who would have soaked in combins with the former Directorate of the DUA. As a senior employer official says at the time, “we do not know where the money” advanced, in certain procedures, to these professionals serving as intermediaries. Another audit is ordered from the Advolis cabinet, which questions the final destination of billions of euros having passed through the hands of legal representatives between 2013 and 2018.
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