Les salariés et les Ambassadrices d'Avon France ont leur premier soutien politique : Rachida Dati

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[Communiqué] Soutien aux salariés et aux ambassadeurs d'Avon France qui craignent pour leur emploi https://t.co/0HFJngf7CJ
— Rachida Dati (@datirachida) October 11, 2013

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PRESS RELEASE FROM RACHIDA DATI, MEMBER OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT

October 11, 2013

Support to Avon France’s employees

Another company is going to close, and other lives are going to be shattered, if nothing is done.

Today, Avon France’s employees asked me for help, because this subsidiary of Avon Products might be liquidated. This company has been established in France for nearly 50 years!

127 employees and 11,000 independent Representatives, who make a living by working for Avon, might lose their job at the end of the month.

I fully support Avon France’s employees and representatives, who are afraid to lose their jobs. They must be treated with dignity and in compliance with the Group’s code of conduct, which is promoted all around the world.

This activity gives the opportunity to many women to combine professional and private life, particularly mothers who raise their children alone. Furthermore, it enables thousands of women and their families to live decently.

I know this company very well. As policy-makers, our duty is to support these employees, who are suffering this injustice, like, unfortunately, millions of French who are already unemployed or afraid to be.

Profitability cannot justify everything. We refuse to live in a society where men and women are considered like variables one can tinker with.

I ask the Minister of Industrial Renewal, Arnaud Montebourg, to take over the Avon dossier and take all necessary measures to help these employees, in particular those many women.