Office of RBS Netherlands at the Zuidas. Photo ANP / Lex van Lieshout
Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) deletes in the Netherlands 550 to 580 of the approximately 600 jobs. This confirms CEO Jan Rider Dutch branch this morning.
The job losses over the next 1.5 to 3 years. The exact numbers are in the course of the reorganization becomes clear. Compulsory redundancies may be unavoidable. RBS has the unions proposed to extend the current social plan until 2018.
Reorganization
RBS pulls this almost all the way back from the Netherlands. The reorganization is part of an international operation with RBS, which was announced last week at the annual results. Where the bank now operates in 38 countries, which should be reduced over a number of years to 13 countries. Among those thirteen also remains Netherlands.
RBS wants to concentrate mainly on the British home market. The platform for payment is brought back to the homeland, like the development of products. In the Netherlands, and eight other Western European countries will only account are active, RBS bring the products to the man. Rider:
“It’s similar to the retail banks in the Netherlands to close offices. With today’s technological advances, there is no need to be anywhere physically present. “
The reason for the surgery is” suboptimal “efficiency of the departments of RBS that focus on businesses. According Rider true for many banks that consumententak currently more profitable than the wholesale services.
Shock
The staff at RBS last week informed. According Jolien Dekker CNV Services RBS has always shown a good employer. That the good social plan is extended, according to her “really neat”. The shock among the staff, according to year nevertheless “huge”.
“This is also another huge job losses in the financial sector in the Netherlands.”
delete Many Dutch banks and insurers on Currently thousands of jobs. Thus disappear at Rabobank until next year 8,800 jobs, and ING nearly five thousand.
ABN Amro
The Dutch branch of RBS is a remnant of the acquisition and separation of ABN Amro in 2007. The British bank took at that time the business branch of the Dutch bank. RBS was nationalized after the credit crisis in 2008, and the bank is now 81 per cent owned by the British government.
In recent years, RBS has the Dutch department already considerably reduced. In April 2013 there are approximately 1900 people worked at RBS Netherlands
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