Destabilization of competing restaurants, Colombian delivery man presented as Spanish, false managers and multiple breaches of labor law: the boss of a Pizza Hut franchisee was summoned Thursday before the Paris Labor Council.
As the conciliation hearing was unsuccessful, the case was postponed to May 6.
Contacted, neither the manager absent at the hearing and who in return accuses his employees of theft, nor his lawyer Me Bruce Aoudai wished to speak.
“We have heard of the existence of reproaches formulated by several employees of this franchisee (…) If abuses or breaches of labor law prove to be correct, they are intolerable and we strongly condemn them”, responded to from AFP the Pizza Hut brand, a subsidiary of the American group Yum! Brands.
It all started with a complaint to the police station of an assistant manager, who was then terminated orally in March 2021, “outside of any procedure, without notice or compensation”, according to his lawyer Me Kevin Mention.
“He did not pay overtime, did not respect the days of rest, placed me in partial activity to receive government aid and he even declared me once morest my will as manager in the legal notices to conceal his responsibilities” , said former assistant Ibrahima Traoré to AFP.
Nine other employees have also left the store and are attacking him before the labor courts.
Transmitted to AFP, the conclusions of the employee’s lawyer mention false payslips to benefit from short-time working, fraud in specific aid on the management of paid leave, manipulations on the time clock so as not to pay overtime, declarations of unjustified absences.
The company also allegedly asked a Colombian employee to provide it with the identity of a Spanish friend in order to hire him, the prosecution said. This delivery man working more than 80 hours per week was paid 3 euros net per trip.
“He showed us that in a snap, he might replace us, assures Issak Mian, hired in 2013. He fired people with a simple message.”
Employees are also surprised by certain competitive practices of their boss who asked them to pose as employees of other restaurants in the neighborhood to delivery platforms in order to change the opening hours of rival brands and collect their orders. , supports the plaintiff’s lawyer in his conclusions.
Still according to Mention, the manager also went with a wifi jammer to his competitors in order to disrupt their order intake.
And he would also have set up a system of false orders on the platforms in order to subsequently obtain a refund for these allegedly non-arrived orders.
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