On his site in Brétigny-sur-Orge, the logistics giant is accused by force worker of minimizing his responsibilities in the accidents who have touched the employees.
by Catherine Quignon
“Amazon disputes 70 % of his accidents at work. We ask the victims if they have done sport before coming to work, if they have followed the instructions … everything is done to make them think that it is Their fault, “said the secretary of the Social and Economic Committee (CSE) on the Amazon site of Brétigny-sur-Orge and elected Force Ouvrière (FO). Karine Blanc does not take offense at what she considers to be the “intimidation” of the company officials with regard to the employees.
Latest accident, on October 27, an interim technician was hospitalized in an emergency after receiving an electric discharge on the site of extension of the Amazon site in Brétigny-sur-Orge. “This man must have suffered an interrogation when he was still in shock, says Karine Blanc. He said to me:” I did not understand what had happened “.”
The report sent to the CSE by a human resources manager “does not correspond to the statements of the victim. She did not have the right EPI [protective equipment], and was convinced that there was no ‘Electricity, “denounces Karine Blanc. To rule out any responsibility in the accident, Amazon’s management also invoked the fact that the group was not yet the owner of the building, future extension of the logistics site. But in January 2022, a 63 -year -old temporary worker died of cardiac arrest on the site. 2> a form of “unacceptable” pressure
The management rejected the qualification of “work accident”, the accident having occurred before the employee begins to work. An argument that does not hold in the eyes of Mathieu Maréchal, responsible for the temporary work branch for FO temporary: “He was on one of the most difficult positions of the company”. The pressure due to his work would have favored his health problems.
Regularly pointed out about the pressure on its employees, Amazon is a large recruiter of temporary workers: the logistics giant has three temporary agencies directly established on its Brétigny-sur-Orge site. A means of having a docile workforce and less inclined to declare accidents at work, maintains Karine Blanc, who estimates between 20 % and 50 % the level of temporary workers on the site of around 4,000 employees: “If he declares an accident at work, an temporary worker knows that his mission will not be renewed,” she said.
Karine Blanc claims to have heard a manager at Randstad, one of the agencies directly located on the Brétigny site, tell the phone to a temporary worker that it was not worth declaring his work accident because he does not would not have respected the safety instructions. An “unacceptable” form of pressure for the union manager. Randstad replies that this is “reported words” and stresses that “a declaration of accident at work has been made during the day” of the event.
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