This week Bouygues Travaux publics – as well as Atlanco Limited and Elco – was fined 25,000 euros by a Criminal Court for organising undeclared work and unlawful use of labour on the European Pressurized Reactor (EPR) construction site of Flamanville.
Pervenche Berès, the head of the French Socialist delegation, said:
"On July 1st, 2011, I led an MEP delegation to the European Pressurized Reactor (EPR) construction site of Flamanville to investigate on the working conditions of posted workers.
"When visiting, we found out that the construction site of Flamanville, a genuine European laboratory of illegal work, was a leader in social dumping and modern slavery. Already sentenced for involuntary homicide, the Bouygues group got caught once again by the justice Tuesday July 7th: this is great news, even if the fine is far too low considering the magnitude of the fiscal and social fraud".
The S&D Group spokesperson on Employment and Social Affairs, Jutta Steinruck, who was part of the parliamentary delegation that visited Flamanville, added:
"The exploitation of European employees of Flamanville is a typical case of circumvention of European rules on the posting of workers by unscrupulous companies.
Since the legal framework remains fragile, we must obtain the revision of the directive on the posting of workers and surpass what we barely achieved during the last term in the fight against social dumping in Europe."
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