Captain of “little boats”, on France Inter, has landed

While she demanded a requalification of her employment contract in permanent contract, Noëlle Bréham is thanked by the station that has welcomed her since 1982.

by Aude Dassonville

First of all, she would like to “send a big thank you to the listeners”. When she made the antenna indeed, Sunday November 6, at the end of what was to be her last issue of “little boats”, Noëlle Bréham did not know that she would not take her back the following Sunday.

Monday, the producer of France Inter received a registered letter meaning her “dismissal for personal reasons”. Convened to an interview on October 10, she did not go there, on the advice of her lawyer: while she has been claiming a permanent contract for a year – first of all over the intermediary, through her lawyer Since spring -, Noëlle Bréham had understood that she would not get the case. “Radio France had offered him a new fixed -term contract for this season, explains Maître Yoann Sibille. In coherence with his approach, my client could not accept it. Hence the blocking situation.” Entry in 1982 to France Inter, the Producer should leave the round house after “forty years of successive fixed -term contracts”, continues his defender in a press release. At Radio France, producers (presenters) sign procurement contracts called “use” (CDDU), attached to the dates of program grids.

“We see Noëlle Bréham leaving with Regret”, admitted Adèle Van Reeth, the director of France Inter, in an email sent to the teams on Tuesday at midday. This is because the presenter with the mutineful voice has been working since September outside of any contract, despite “many reminders”, insists the manager, “that her maintenance on the air [is] legally impossible”.

Recourse to industrial tribunal

The precariousness of radio producers is a constantly renewed source of recourse to industrial tribunals, more or less publicized, on the part of those whose programs stop – even if they are over 70 years old, This age limit provided by law does not exist for these intermittent employees. Sometimes transactions interrupt the procedures, sometimes the complainants obtain compensation.

The financial situation of Noëlle Bréham had paradoxically became complicated when the chain had offered to animate a daily life, “La Nuit is à vous”, in 2015. “To be able to assure him, I left the program From France 5 “Silence that pushes”, which I have co -hosted for thirteen years, says the one who will be 66 years old on December 25. The show lasted only one year, then I was entrusted a weekly as a consolation lot (“State of mind”), which also only lasted a season. With the only “little boats”, I had an income between 1,100 and 1,300 euros per month, which is Little, when you live in the Paris region. “

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