- On 22 April 2010, the French newspaper Humanity blames the social practices of the company to maintain a contract with the French State with the support of this latter . The principal charge carried by the daily newspaper is:
- Within the framework of the revival program of Nicolas Sarkozy, the companies having a contract - with the State are held to maintain full employment.
- Toshiba, with its contract of the Union of the groupings of open-market purchase (Ugap), under the - aegis of the French State, would have cut in its manpower and an expert of the Secafi cabinet speaks - even about waves of dismissals.
- On 24 May 2010, after further investigation, the French newspaper Libération reported a link with UMP party in this political and economic business : Despite the fact that this whole thing was disputed by the National French labour inspection, the dismissal of an opponent is validated by the Ministry of Labour. Liberation published : "This is embarrassing for a group which largely benefits from the state and public account orders". Xavier Darcos, still Minister of Labour at that time ignored the opinion of his collaborators and authorizes the dismissal of a Union delegate before even the investigation report was submitted to him. The Libération newspaper made the point by announcing that the Director of Human Resources from Toshiba Systems France is an elected member of UMP party. - see also http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toshiba#cite_note-0 for more details.