... In the reply ALSICO writes:

“In Madagascar, we saw that one individual deliberately harmed the social dialogue by posing on Facebook as an full elected trade union delegate, posting confidential information from the social dialogue. This with the aim to inflict harm to E-Toile.”

This is not true, and probably a reflection of a misunderstanding of the Madagascar labour laws because Sento is an assistant trade union representative as per Articles 6 and 7 of the Malagasy Labour Code. As assistant union representative he enjoys the same rights and responsibilities as those of a trade union representative. Therefore, it is not a privilege that he was invited to the meeting with the management...

Further, the reply seems to imply that the unjust imprisonment... is meant to promote social dialogue. This is a contradiction of what social dialogue is all about and what it is meant to achieve...