France’s Labour Inspection department has asked Compagnie des Machines Bull SA’s management to re-examine entirely the procedure for informing and consulting the company’s labour-management committee on its procedure for the social treatment of excess employees, according to a report in the French business journal Les Echos: the paper says a letter dated March 19 criticises insufficient and imprecise information communicated by Bull and the absence of a plan for voluntarily reclassified employees.