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It would surely be better that former EDF staff are not working on that assessment.
EDF staff own 1.72% of the utility's capital, making employees the second-largest shareholder after the state, which hold 84.5%, according to ThomsonReuters data.
But the EDF staff council last month began legal action to try to force the company to release documents relating the project, including all the contracts it had signed with the British government and its co-investor, the Chinese utility CGN.
EDF staff are busy working to encourage the strongest and most effective final outcome from the negotiations.
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A deal signed by EDF with staff in 1999, as the 35-hour working week came into effect, allowed some staff to work a 32-hour week.
Even many of the staff inside EDF think Hinkley is a colossal white elephant.
The safety regulator said two of its staff had EDF pensions but refused to disclose if other employees and contractors, who were not receiving pensions, had worked at EDF or the other firms involved in the project such as Areva, China General Nuclear Power Group and China National Nuclear Corp.
In a report in 2013 the French state auditors noted that the average number of hours worked by staff at EDF was 1,570 hours a year, well below the 1,607 hours a year expected of a full-time post according to the Code du travail.
EDF is in a row over 100 staff at the Tricastin plant being irradiated, but is also wrapping up talks on a £12bn deal to take over British Energy, the UK's only real nuclear generator.
The energy companies, including Centrica, EDF and RWE npower, have also placed numerous staff into government departments on secondments, either funded by the taxpayer or provided for free.
Energy companies, including Centrica, EDF and RWE npower, have placed dozens of staff in government departments on secondments since 2008, either funded by the taxpayer or provided for nothing.
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