On September 22, 2025, 45 Tunisian engineers were dismissed by e-mail, without notice or payment of late wages. Stratis Worldwide, a French subsidiary installed in Sfax, remains unreachable, while the victims denounce a brutal treatment and raise questions on the ethics of business practices.
September 22, 2025 will remain a black date for 45 Tunisian engineers from Sfax. These professionals have learned, by a simple email, that their employer, Worldwide stratisFrench subsidiary recently established in the city, ended their contracts. No notice, no payment of unpaid wages since August, and no explanation accompanying this brutal decision.
The victims relayed their disarray on social networks under the hashtag #صرخ soons : “45 dreams collapsed in one night … We gave our time, our health and our commitment, and what we harvested was a total abandonment.” According to them, their skills have been exploited as “cheap labor” and their fundamental rights flouted.
Amin Khcharemone of the licensed engineers is intervened on the airwaves of Diwan FM To detail the situation : “The day after the dismissal, the company was closed. Our wages were not paid. During the confrontation with the Stratis lawyer and the regional subsidiary office, the lawyer said they could do nothing against stratis.” These words strengthen the feeling of impunity and abandonment that employees have been faced.
To date, Stratis worldwide remains unreachablewhich accentuates questions about the responsibility of the French subsidiary. The case was taken up by Diwan FMgiving the floor to the victims and exposing the impact on their families.
This situation illustrates a paradox for Tunisia: the country seeks to attract foreign investment and develop the technological sector, but its professionals sometimes remain vulnerable in the face of practices deemed abusive. It also raises the question of social responsibility of foreign companies and the legal protection of local employees.
Engineers now call for the mobilization of the media, organizations of defense of rights and Tunisian authorities to obtain justice and guarantee respect for their rights.
