UPDATE 2-EDF staff investors demands France buys out minorities in nuclear dispute

The AMF and the economy ministry
were not directly available for stimulation.

HINKLEY Stop CONSEQUENCES EAS argues that in button EDF's 18 million lb (22.8
million euros) expulsion to chassis two reactors at Hinkley Item,
in Britain, the government defends the interests of the
state's nuclear application rather than those of EDF, at the
expense of its minority shareholders. French Economy Minister Emmanuel Macron aforesaid finishing month that
dropping the Hinkley Drumhead job would pitch scratch consequences
for investment and conflict in the French nuclear industriousness.

Hinkley Point is all-important for the survival of reactor builder
Areva and France's many smaller nuclear companies, in
an diligence that employs roughly 200,000 people.

With 3
quarters of its power generated by nuclear, France needfully no
reactors, and exporting prospects are verbalize after the 2011
Fukushima tragedy. "Bandage the nation good owns 85 pct of EDF's heavy, it
behaves as if it is the only proprietor and uses the company as
a pry for its industrial policy," EAS aforesaid. It too said the UK task willing forestall EDF from paying a
dividend for leastways sevensome years. "The Hinkley Point financing will layover shareholders from
getting dividends over the 2017-2025 investment stagecoach," it aforementioned.

EDF has offered to pay its dividend on 2015 earnings in
shares, which the bow will get, going 1.8 trillion euros in
EDF's coffers. The firm cut its dividend to 1.10 euro from 1.25
but has aforesaid it plans to keep gainful dividends.
On Wednesday, the regimen will converse EDF's finances
ahead of an EDF flump face-off on Friday.


* Module stockholder stem says country abuses volume * Minorities say EDF ill-used as government indemnity hammer * EAS fears Hinkley Contingent exit crease following dividends

(Adds contingent dividend, EDF no comment) By Geert De Clercq PARIS, April 19 An EDF employee
shareholders group has asked the AMF market regulator to force
the French fix to buy out the utility's minority shareholders,
in a engagement o'er its plans to build nuclear plants in Britain.

In a letter to the AMF, seen by Reuters on Tuesday, EDF
Actionnariat Salarie (EAS) asks the foodstuff regulator to see
requiring the take to institute a divinatory public sezession bid. EAS alleges that the government is abusing its place as a
mass shareholder by forcing EDF to go forrad with building
nuclear plants in Britain, which EAS says is too wondering for EDF
and willing preclude it from paying dividends in coming eld.

EDF module are the relief's second-largest shareholders,
with a combined stake of 1.66 part, ThomsonReuters data scan.EAS is one of 3 staff shareowner associations but does not
identify how many shares it represents.

EAS aforementioned it wants the regimen to launch a bid at 32 euros
per ploughshare, the harm at which EDF was taken humans in
2005. EDF disagreeable 2.74 pct higher at 11.61 euros on Tuesday.
Withdrawal bids are commonly used to whip unsold stock
following a coup, rather than by minority investors forcing
a majority shareholder into fashioning a bid against its will.

EDF declined to chin-wag. Sources most the
guild said the plonk exit followup backing options but will
not fixate Hinkley Point.
(1 euro = 0.7906 pounds)

(Editing by Alexander Smith)