A platform to denounce the poor working conditions of seasonal workers

“Fifty-four hours of work in eight days (off-season), no timesheet, a manager constantly on my back” in a Corsican restaurant; “The boss thanked me for hiring his nephew and his boyfriend in my place without having declared me” in a restaurant in Hérault; “Sexist and misogynistic remarks” in a champagne farm…

Here are the reviews that can be read on the Staff-Advisor website. With a name inspired by the travel app TripAdvisor, this young platform has set itself an ambitious mission: to break the silence on the working conditions of seasonal workers and provide workers and employers with concrete benchmarks.

"In 2019, I had a disastrous season in the Var, both in terms of housing and food... I decided to leave, and I put myself in the shoes of a young person who would come from the other end of France and be stuck in a job like that ," says Christophe Coconas, a maître d'hôtel for twenty-five years and co-founder of Staff-Advisor. It's not normal that bosses pass our CVs around, but that we can't know which boss to avoid." After having enjoyed success with 10,000 users and 700 reviews, the platform stopped at the time of the Covid-19 pandemic, before being reborn in 2025. For the moment, we only find around sixty reviews, illustrating the difficulty of expressing oneself on these subjects.

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