SNS Bank was forced to lay off potentially hundreds of jobs – NU.nl

this confirms a spokesman for the parent company of SNS, ASN Bank and RegioBank Friday NU.nl. The numbers are according to him still not set in stone and can still change.

The plans, which cover all the brands of SNS Bank, must first be further elaborated. How many people exactly need, therefore, is not yet known.

The financial group now has more than four thousand jobs. SNS Bank wants to be cut in the organization depends on the digitization in the financial sector. Because of that change, according to the bank needed to be more efficient to go to work. From January 1, SNS continued under the name of Volksbank.

Inevitable

“These are adjustments that all banks are going through. If they do not, then they are there for a few years, bad for. So that is inevitable,” responds minister Jeroen Dijsselbloem (Finance). “That unfortunately also means that jobs will be lost. That is no different.”

Dijsselbloem points out that SNS is a volksbank with particular services to consumers. “Especially that type of work is for a large part to automate. Then you have less people needed.”

Visieloos

Chairman Reinier Castelein of labour union, The Union calls any reorganization a “visieloze austerity”. “They want SNS omdopen to Volksbank, but there are almost no people more. It is a gure environment in the financial sector,” said Castelein.

Director Cem Lacin of trade union FNV Finance mentions it in a comment “is terrible news for the employees of SNS Bank” and stresses the importance of a new social plan. The current social plan will expire at the end of 2016. The bond talk to the bank about a new version.

Director Jolien Dekker of CNV stresses that flat out is working on arrangements for a good social plan, probably in January, is determined.

Achmea

In the Dutch banking and insurance sector are restructuring the last few years, many thousands of jobs have been lost. The announcement of SNS comes a day after insurer Achmea, a line cited by approximately two thousand jobs.

“I am troubled to clear-cutting in the banking and insurance sector. The last years there is a veritable exodus of employees in the financial sector and where can these people still get to work? The chances are that they are long, too long sitting at home, because the job offer in their field only but it is decreasing,” said Lacin of FNV Finance.

SNS is still in the hands of the State, and that remains so. In The Hague was the decision about a sale of the part of the former SNS Reaal this summer rolled over to the next government’s term of office. It is intended that the SNS, the first year the time given to prove themselves and increase their worth.

By: ANP/NU.en