A-Infos (en) Austria, Wien Syndikat: Update on Le Firin - Will the second Le Firin also soon go bankrupt? (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

The latest news in the long history of our industrial dispute against 
the company Le Firin may even herald the end of Le Firin. Insolvency 
proceedings have also been opened against the second company structure 
of the managing director of Le Firin. But let's first recap the whole 
story. ---- At both the old and the new LeFirin, the managing director 
has continuously either not paid wages and invoices at all or paid them 
far too late and only partially. We now have countless statements from 
former employees on this, as well as a report that the first company 
called Le Firin, which went bankrupt in autumn 2023, had 1.3 million in 
debt (which is really something to be achieved with three bakery 
businesses!).

If things cannot continue like this because the demands can no longer be 
paid under any circumstances, the managing director lets the companies 
go bankrupt, with the outstanding wages being taken over by the 
insolvency wage fund anyway (and thus socialized, see our last report on 
the subject). The managing director is never the owner: the official 
owners are always his family members, so that he himself is never liable 
for anything and his creditworthiness is not tarnished. At the company 
CSC Trade & Gastro e.U., which went bankrupt in autumn 2023, his wife 
was the owner.

At Atelier Le Firin GmbH, which is now in insolvency proceedings, the 
managing director's mother is the official owner. After the old Le Firin 
company structure went bankrupt, Le Firin continued to operate with a 
new branch on Rochusmarkt, including the use of the old name and logo 
and public reference to its history. The Ücler bakery branch on 
Aumannplatz also simply passed into the hands of the new Le Firin, 
apparently without compensation.

The Le Firin employer model also remained the same: wages not paid, or 
only paid in part, or paid far too late. Employees of the new Le Firin 
have also reported this to us several times. Together with possible 
claims from the insolvency administrator of the first Le Firin regarding 
squandering assets regarding the transfer of the bakery and the brand 
name, the new insolvency proceedings now seem to us to be the logical 
consequence.

However, this is a restructuring procedure, which means that the company 
could even continue to operate if the creditors waive part of the debts. 
Regardless of whether the Le Firin business model can continue or 
whether this is the end of the Le Firin brand, one thing is clear: as 
long as capitalism exists, there will always be more Le Firins and 
corresponding managing directors. In this sense: join the anarchist union!

Published on wiensyndikat.wordpress.com on June 30, 2024. Copying with 
source reference possible.

https://wiensyndikat.wordpress.com/2024/06/30/update-zu-le-firin/
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