The really strange thing is that the French pilot union (SNPL) has been silent about this story.
So it might not be as clear as the Cabin Crew Union has been claiming about it.
And CC of that particular company are not particularly famous for their empathy and general understandings of some on-board issues. It's one of those French entities, like passenger ships and railways, which seem to have been designed to accommodate employees before passengers - and management has to comply with it, for fear of strikes