food / Berlin (APA / dpa / AFP) – The ailing Karstadt department store group, which belongs to the Tyrolean Realty investor Rene Benko, pays a total of 2.5 million euros into a fund for affected employees from layoffs. This looks like a collective social plan, which the company has agreed with the trade union Verdi, as the workers’ organization announced on Thursday.
Karstadt workers in the framework of the ongoing layoffs in the coming months to a transfer company Skip to receive from the Fund an amount of 2,300 euros to cushion social hardship. According to the collective social plan Verdi wrote for the employees of the six stores to be closed this year, a “retroactive collective power” fixed. “These workers get compensated financially for one year from the phase-out of tariff binding the consequences,” said the union
Verdi negotiator Arno Peukes stressed. “We know we are not the consequences of unemployment can fully absorb. “But the collective social plan could at least mitigate a portion of the resulting hardships. According to the trade unionist about 900 employees now have received notice. Numerous other positions were reduced in a socially acceptable. In total, 2,400 jobs would be cut.
The collective bargaining for Karstadt will be continued in the coming week. Ver.di calls in the negotiations among other things a site backup for all Karstadt stores and employment guarantees for all remaining jobs.
~ ~ WEB http://www.karstadt.de APA291 2015-04-02 / 13 : 18
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