“We were told that the recruitment agency was dismissing wesh-wesh recruiters” On the eve of the end-of-year holidays, Partnaire is putting its employees in the Creille area out of work. They are angry, especially since they firmly believed in a better future and thought they would be confirmed in their role as recruiters. “It’s a normal end of contract,” responds the communications department of the recruitment brand, specifying that “it was a fixed-term mission” and “that they knew that the period was limited.”
The Partnaire temporary agency won the Amazon contract last April. The objective is to recruit recruiters for the Senlis site. “There was the creation of an agency, recruitment on a fixed-term contract with the promise of a permanent contract,” recalls one of the recruiters who will be on the job from December 13. Several recruiters explain: “As soon as they got the Amazon contract, we started recruiting only order preparers. At the beginning, we didn’t have a permanent agency, so we worked in municipal halls in the town of Creil. An agreement was signed because there are a lot of Creillois applying and residents of the urban area. This contributes to the reduction in unemployment,” notes a recruiter. So the recruitment managers are mainly from Creillois. Partner seems to have responded to all the customer’s orders, Amazon therefore.
Then the mail came a few days ago. “We are thanked as the holidays approach. Our contract is not renewed ten days before the end. We were told that we have no interpersonal skills (clearly that we are savages), that we are a wesh-wesh recruitment,” the recruiter harshly tackles the floor. He continues: “the various managers clearly told us that we would not be able to manage you because of your strong character. They only prolong the only man who is not of Creilloise origin and the rest returns to social precariousness,” notes with bitterness the one who believed in this mission.
For many, the recruitment agency was the end of a long period of unemployment and financial difficulties, in short, the end of the tunnel. But now, a few weeks before the end-of-year holidays, a new team manager, formerly a sales executive, decided not to renew nine staff in whom the agency had complete confidence since they were originally of nearly 900 hires on the Amazon site. We had to find workers for this site and therefore look where there is labor. The Creillois basin is full of them. You still have to deal with the right people. From May to August and from August to December, whether at the sports executive center, at the associations’ house or in other municipal premises, the recruitment agency was set up with motivated recruiters.
“We never count our overtime, sometimes we skip breaks. We were happy to be able to highlight a territory, a population with real jobs at stake. Recruitment was mainly based on order preparers. To the Amazon site in Senlis. “It was not uncommon to meet 180 to 250 people per week. All profiles were welcome, mainly young people aged 26 to 30 but we also had many candidates aged 40 to 50. We had promises, certainly oral, from the agency. We had to move from CDD to CDI; there was even a promise of reclassification at the end of the recruitment period. We all believed the word given. For us, this is something important. It was a bad thing for us. We want to communicate today so that the next ones don’t get fooled. Everything must be specified in the contract,” says the interlocutor.
The employees who must return their badges on December 13 are simply disgusted by the methods used and especially by the words that they consider to be particularly hurtful.
“This shelving corresponds to the arrival of a new team manager. We were clearly told that we were wesh-wesh recruiters. We corresponded to the Creillois basin to serve as a transition with job seekers in the basin. We find this particularly demeaning, discriminating, ordinary racism which should have no place in a society which highlights its human side,” alleges one of the employees put in the spotlight. The wording of “wesh-wesh recruiter” is considered “seriously discriminating” “We are aware that we have practically no recourse. We want to testify so that future recruiters are informed of the methods used. On the agency side, the regional director’s number rings. We pick up. A certain Anaïs who says: “not to be concerned by this matter”. On the agency side, the switch takes place with the communications department. The latter categorically refutes the words revealed by the recruiters, but affirms that the fixed-term missions end in December and “that it was planned like that”. A way out all the same. In the communication, it is stated that “other missions will soon be undertaken and that this should interest future recruiters”. Not sure if they want to apply.
