If you live near one of their stores every week should have it in your mailbox: the advertising brochure of the department store chain Kaufland. In future, but probably bring the other Paperboy. The responsible publisher dismisses namely its 55,000 mini-jobbers.
leaflets of the department store chain Kaufland will in future be distributed only via external service – thousands of mini-jobbers lose their jobs so nationwide. “This decision was really hard, was now but unfortunately necessary,” said Andreas Riekötter, Managing Director, belonging to the Kaufland Group TIP advertising publishing, on Thursday in Heilbronn with Stuttgart.
55,000 deliverers lose job
The publisher separates According Riekötter of around 55,000 deliverers of our customer magazine “TIP of the week”. Mostly wear pupils, students, housewives or retired from the brochure on mini-job basis. Their activities should be outsourced from November. Previous deliverer can apply to future service providers themselves, according to the publisher but.
Some 40 percent of the rest are reportedly already delivered by external service providers. The reason for the complete conversion Kaufland called the complex organization of the delivery boy, whose number has increased with the expansion of Kaufland. Accordingly, 20 million leaflets will be distributed nationwide weekly. Purchase land in this country has 635 branches.
“largest mass layoff in history”
The union Verdi expressed his outrage at the announcement. “It is probably the largest mass layoff in the history of the Federal Republic of Germany,” said Verdi Baden-Württemberg it. “Among the employees are also numerous benefits who achieved so far with it at least a little, not imputed income.” The union sees claims to difficulties in achieving the sales targets as a reason for the dismissals.
In addition to the 55,000 mini-jobbers also get 100 people at its sites in Dortmund, Hamburg, Leipzig and Berlin Dallgow at the termination. A balance of interests does not pay, the publisher claims to be. Unlike buying land there in the TIP advertising publishing a works council.
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