“We really did not expect it to be so brutal and violent,” reacts the CGT shops

The Jennyfer brand, released from a period of receivership in 2024, was finally placed Wednesday in compulsory liquidation.

“We really didn’t expect it as brutal and violent”reacts Wednesday April 30 on Franceinfo Elodie Ferrier, federal secretary for the CGT shops, while the Jennyfer brand, released from a period of receivership in 2024, was finally placed in compulsory liquidation.

Elodie Ferrier says that “Management concealed everything until the last minute” and that “No time they informed the staff representatives that they had put the company in cessation of payment and that they had requested the liquidation”. Federal Secretary of the CGT Shops claims to have known “Tuesday evening, that’s where it hurts”. “The whole company is liquidatedshe continues, It will no longer exist. More head office, more warehouses, more stores, which represents around 1,000 employees “.

The trade unionist recalls that there was a first plan to safeguard employment (PSE) in 2021, a second in 2023, then a receivership measurement in 2024, “It is therefore a logical sequence that has arrived”. Regarding the possibility of having recovery offers, Elodie Ferrier does not believe it :: “Already, at the time of receivership there had been no offers so we do not see how there could be some by May 13 when the situation is even more degraded.”

For the trade unionist, the situation at Jennyfer is no different from what is happening elsewhere in the clothing sector, for signs that have experienced social plans. “The employers reinvest the profits of the company in the pockets of shareholders and does not reinvest in the development of stores (stocks, work, etc.), they therefore create the deficit themselves”denounces Elodie Ferrier. A situation that the trade unionist deplores in particular because, according to her, these companies “Touch state aid they then use to dismiss people and have to finance – with state aid – layoffs”.

She denounces the fact that, according to her, “The government does nothing” To stop this clothing crisis and posting of posts in the sector. However, repeats Elodie Ferrier “Solutions exist, it suggests that the government is walking hand in hand with employers”.