Banque de France: Following the suicide of an employee, a report confirms the "boiling" of social risks at the Vic-le-Compte printing works
A report by Technologia, conducted on the social situation of the EuropaFi subsidiary following the suicide of a foreman in November 2024, describes a company undermined by serious tensions generated by the coexistence of two statuses and by difficult working conditions, to which management is struggling to respond.
At the Vic-le-Comte factory (Puy-de-Dôme), everything was in place for things to go well. The last banknote printing house in France, EuropaFi, a subsidiary of the Banque de France that benefited from a €400 million modernization plan, has been making a profit for years thanks to the production of banknotes in euros and other currencies (80% of its business). However, "people come to work with closed faces. And then there was this tragedy," says a worker.
The tragedy was the suicide of a foreman on November 18, 2024. This was the third suicide in a year across the entire Banque de France ecosystem. A month later, EuropaFi's CSE voted to seek expert advice "due to...
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