"The Island of Temptation": case postponed

The industrial tribunal in Boulogne-Billancourt (Hauts-de-Seine) returned to the Dec. 17 case in which participants from the TV broadcast of "The Island of Temptation" (TF1) request to be recognized as employees. The hearing to be held this morning, was postponed at the request of the defendant company (the producer of the broadcast Glemas, TF1 and Sipa) on the grounds that the lawyers of the participants had submitted their written the day before evening. The companies also claimed that parts of the opposing party are denied the procedure, what the Council refused industrial tribunal. In an electric atmosphere and tense, the lawyer Glemas (a subsidiary of TF1), Emmanuelle Me Barbara, denounced in advance a "political trial", including "the trial is already in the press." "Rather than feeding the press, you would have done better to prepare your conclusions", has launched later his lawyer TF1, Me Guillemin Thibault. Opposite, Mr. Thierry Levy stressed the "extraordinary aggressiveness" of his opponents and has strongly prevailed when the lawyer TF1 has accused of "dishonesty". The next hearing on twelve participants and twenty-six as reported Monday by mistake, will be held Dec. 17 at 09H00. By then, other files on "Temptation Island" must be discussed with the Tribunal de Boulogne, including next Tuesday. Former members of the emission regulations demand that they be re-signed contracts of work. If justice gave them because it would have significant consequences for emissions of TV, because they would then be subject to the obligations of the Labor Code. In a previous case, the 18th Labor Court of Appeal of Paris issued a ruling favorable to another participant, confirming an initial trial of the Paris tribunal and punishing Glemas for "clandestine work". Glemas was ordered to pay him 8176 euros for overtime, 817 euros for paid leave, 500 euros in damages for unlawful dismissal, 1,500 euros for wrongful termination of contract and 16,000 euros in compensation for clandestine work .