Vivat, the insurer that emerged from Reaal, delete the years 900 to 1200 jobs. That is a heavy one: currently employs over three thousand people in the company that was acquired last year by the Chinese rival Anbang
. In a press release Vivat that costs are now 30% higher than the competition. The reorganization is not unexpected. Earlier Vivat announced that changes are afoot, but so far without specifying which.
Sister company SNS
All insurers in recent years have put the knife in the cost. At Vivat, where a brand like Swiss Life falls under, which is hardly done, because management had for years required attention for the former sister company SNS.
The job losses in a three-year period. Vivat the organization wants “less complex” Create and start working on one central organization. Details are not yet known.
Vivat wants to use much stronger on digitization. The insurer points out in the press release on ‘innovative capacity and experience of its shareholder, “suggesting that Anbang from Beijing directly carries on the business. Anbang has already made with its own innovative approach the years of loss-making Dutch insurer once again be able to get on their feet.
‘Sledgehammer Battle
Trade Union, the Union called Monday the dismissal wave at Vivat a’ hammer blow ‘for employees in the insurance sector. “The trend of large layoffs in the financial sector continues,” says Reinier Castelein, chairman of trade union De Unie. He sees fewer and fewer employment opportunities for employees in the financial sector
Castelein in a press statement:. “After several waves of job losses at the banks, we are now entering the era of the insurers. This is only the first hammer blow. “
However, according to the Union, a good social plan. It has been agreed that employees are exempted from work from the moment they are declared redundant. They can then give priority to finding a new job. The current social plan until 1 January 2017. In the course of this year, calls for a new social plan will start.
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