The way V & D announced yesterday to sharply cut the costs, the unions have surprised. In particular the fact that the department store group generates unilaterally declared a wage sacrifice surprise. “For that kind of action, companies need permission from their employees,” said Martijn den Heijer Dienstenbond of CNV. “Today I have not gotten the idea that V & D that will ask for permission. It has just announced that it is going to do this. “
Niels Suijker FNV concurs with that approach. “The only thing we have been asked is whether we can sympathize with the plans.” Also extends the speed of action. The Heijer says: “The new salary level should begin as early as February. That you employees who also sit with fixed costs, not do. The years are not going well, you can not pass within two weeks on the employees’.
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What next steps are going to take the unions, they do not yet know. They have to see the conversation that they have Thursday with V & D, where they get more background on the plans of the group. ‘I first want to hear what the workers themselves and talk to our members, “said Suijker. He points out that additional information of V & D is crucial. “I want to know what the consequences for the company if these measures are not taken. Are we then go directly into a doomsday scenario ‘
In the past, the unions had a hard nut to crack to V & amp;? D-owner Sun Capital. When Neckermann, then owned by Sun in 2012 ended up in financial dire straits, it wanted to private equity house to make a major reorganization. The unions made them hard for severance, but Sun demanded that neither in the Netherlands nor in Germany a social plan would be completed. Neckermann Germany was soon declared bankrupt.
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