25.11.2016

The company TTGCE blocks the Semsamar headquarters in Marigot

The Semsamar is asking Daniel Lake’s company to give them a refund for amounts paid in the framework of construction work completed.

"This morning, several employees from the EURL TTGCE, who were led by its manager and sole associate, Daniel Lake, blocked the access to the Semsamar headquarters in Marigot. A first blockade had already been organized by this same company on Wednesday November 23, 2016", announced the Semsamar in a press release.

The Sem explained that it assigned the construction of roads and main services to this company in several housing construction operations but that "two construction situations did not correspond to the work progress report and therefore cannot be justified". Therefore, the Semamar wants the "TTGCE to refund the amounts unduly paid, which comes to a total 136,820.48 €".

"The exchanges with the company were unsuccessful and the Semsamar had to suspend its payments to the TTGCE under the current projects," said the press release.

On September 29, at the request of the TTGCE who claimed that the Semsamar’s decision no longer allowed them to pay the salaries of the TTGCE’s employees, a meeting was organized between the Semsamar and TTGCE, in the presence of the labor inspector, who is the mediator, to resolve this conflict. "Aware of TTGCE’s difficult situation, the Semsamar offered, especially in order to enable the payment of the wages, to set up financial provisions with a payment plan for the 136,820.48 € which was unduly collected by the TTGCE. The SEMSAMAR offered TTGCE to sign an agreement in that sense. The TTGCE has not responded to this proposal", added the SEM.

On Wednesday, November 23, the TTGCE also blocked the access to the Semsamar headquarters in Marigot all day long. "In the hopes of resuming negotiations, the SEMSAMAR presented a new proposal for an agreement to the TTGCE during the afternoon. The TTGCE refused the proposal", they said.

"The SEMSAMAR regrets the TTGCE manager’s intransigence. It has decided to refer the matter to the courts in order to lodge a complaint with an emergency writ of summons at short notice against all the authors of the blockade of its headquarters," announced the SEM which said it had remained "open to discussion despite everything, even under the aegis of the labor inspection, in order to reach a compromise with the TTGCE which would both allow the SEMSAMAR to be refunded for amounts unduly collected as well as enable the sustainability of both the TTGCE and the situation of its employees".

 

Estelle Gasnet