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	Questions transmitted by UGICT CGT trade-union November 20, 2003 After 11.20.03 shop-stewards’/HRM meeting UGICT CGT trade-union informs you November 26, 2003 All the articles for Working conditions

Questions transmitted by UGICT CGT trade union

for 03.25.04 shop-stewards’/HRM meeting

Sorry, the cafeteria in TECHNIP tower will be closed next Thursday, April 1st, because the poll for election of works council members and shop stewards will take place in this room. All TECHNIP FRANCE’s employees in the Company will be able to vote from 9.30 a.m. to 4 p.m.

They will have to choose between the lists of candidates presented by the three trade unions represented at TECHNIP FRANCE. Shop stewards and works council members are elected for two years and are granted paid time to carry out their personnel representatives’ duties.

Salary rise requested: 2.5 %

All unions request a 2.5 % salary rise for all employees.

2004 bonus

UGICT CGT requests a 1500 € bonus for all employees.

Assignments in the group’s subsidiaries - Payment of overtime

Legal maximum working hours in France are: 10h/day, 48h/week, 46h/week over a period of 10 weeks. Many employees work overtime when assigned in subsidiaries or doing business travels in Subcontractors’ or Vendors’ facilities and are not paid for overtime.

UGICT CGT shop stewards request that all overtime should be paid according to the legal rates and that nobody should work beyond legal maximum working hours.

Opening hours in the Reprography department

The Reprography department has been requested to increase opening hours. UGICT CGT shop stewards request that additional employees should be hired in order to allow work to be completed within standard working hours (7.30 h/week) and that persons to be present during early and late hours should be chosen in agreement with the department’s employees.

Improvement of the restaurant in TECHNIP tower

Last month, Executive Management representatives made commitments for a few improvements. Action seems not to have been taken since. Beyond already mentioned issues, new problems have been noted such as the following: dishes at set prices not available in the kiosk indicated or not mentioned in the payment terminal. It has also been noted that meat dishes gradually disappear from the list of 1st and 2nd price dishes.

UGICT CGT shop stewards request that Executive Management’s commitments should be complied with and that improvement actions should be taken, and in particular the following:

  hors-d’oeuvre and main dishes over the whole price range should be daily available, quality should be improved and two kiosks should propose each category of dishes,

  vegetables should be sufficiently cooked and various salads should be proposed, without addition of meat or ham, at moderate price,

  a vegetarian dish should be proposed daily,

  missing tables should be installed and access ways within the restaurant should be sufficiently wide in order to prevent accidents,

  napkin dispensers should be installed on salad dressing tables,

  cooled water dispensers should be more numerous and proper operation should be checked,

  attendants in the cafeteria should be more numerous during the whole opening period,

  paying terminals should be repaired so as to prevent having to wait for the id badge to be accepted or to have to go to the main cashier desk for payment.

Restaurant price rates

A tax per meal of €5.18 and a VAT additional tax are added to the price of all external personnel meals. This tax is unfair and doubles the price of a meal, for instance it raises the price of a sandwich to nearly €7.

UGICT CGT shop stewards request that these taxes should be deleted.

Besides, they ask what will be the consequences of the measures taken by the French government to support the restaurant owners: will additional employees be hired in the restaurant? will prices be lowered?

Elevators

After a study carried out upon Corporate Services’ request, a new system has been adopted. Executive management failed to transmit this study to shop stewards, notwithstanding its commitment. UGICT CGT shop stewards request that this study should be transmitted. They request corrective actions promised to be taken at last, in particular:

  corrective action to improve cab balance and proper setting of door closing,

  re-actuating of signal lights and sound signals on each floor,

  repair of broken mirrors and installation of new control buttons in cabs.
Besides, this new control system does not solve the access problem concerning the mail office at floor RR. UGICT CGT shop stewards request that mail offices should be provided on floors 2 and 21.

Working conditions: noise, etc.

In 2003, when most TECHNIP FRANCE’s employees have been transferred to TECHNIP tower, TECHNIP FRANCE’s budget for working conditions improvement has been divided by 2. Were such savings used for moving expenses? Nearly one year after the arrival of the first employees and residents in TECHNIP tower, many problems remain unsolved, such as:

  noise in the lobby of TECHNIP tower should be abated and TV sound should be turned off,

  many requests for office partitions or doors, made for noise abatement or confidentiality purposes, have been - rejected. UGICT CGT shop stewards ask that all requests should be accepted,

  several months ago, Corporate Services said that action was to be taken to prevent bad odours in the lobby in the morning. No improvement has been recorded. UGICT CGT shop stewards request that corrective actions should be taken to prevent bad odours in the lobby and in corridors in the tower.

  goods delivery door is unsuitable and corridors on floor RR (mail office) are very cold. Proper doors should be installed and temporary measures taken at once until they are installed.

  mice and cockroaches are a permanent issue in La Défense towers. UGICT CGT shop stewards ask what action has been taken to protect TECHNIP tower against rodents and roaches.

We have also noted that at level R1, 2 months after cracks in the floor have been repaired the photocopier is still in the corridor.

Compliance with French labour laws

UGICT CGT shop stewards request that Executive Management should comply with French labour laws:

  they must convene a Unions’ Representatives’ meeting for renewal of the corporate union contract,

  they must organize without further delay the third meeting of the Special Negotiating Body, which includes representatives of the employees of the European Subsidiaries of TECHNIP, to finalize the agreement for the creation of a European Works Council,

  they must affix trade union and shop stewards information boards at entrance to working facilities in TECHNIP tower as required by the law.