In favour of a veritable right to redeployment

• Frédéric BRUGGEMAN
  Syndex
  
• Maître Henri-José LEGRAND
  Lawyer
  
• Bernard MASSÉRA
  Formerly employee representative of the Central Works Council, Chausson
  
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Summary

Even in times of economic recovery, factory closures are frequent. This gives rise to anxiety among employees and produces an upheaval. In order to prevent unjustified closures, it is tempting to limit them. However, this runs the risk of merely postponing the inevitable to a later date and making the solutions complicated. Would it not be better to put redeployment processes in place and encourage companies to invest time and money in these, or even force them to do so ? Frédéric Bruggeman, in his capacity as an expert called upon by works' councils, has been witness to numerous factory closures and has taken part in successful redeployment operations, such as that which took place following the last planned redundancy scheme at the Chausson factory. This experience led him to advocate a veritable right of employees to redeployment.

Summary translated from French by Rachel MARLIN.

• The entire article was written by Élisabeth BOURGUINAT.

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The entire article appears in French in the Journal de l'École de Paris du management N° 33.