ZAGREB, March 29 - No employee with the Croatian Telekom (Hrvatski Telekom or HT) will be made redundant because of the restructuring of the company, the HT Management Board chairman, Ivica Mudrinic, told workers who staged a protest
rally in front of the administration building in the downtown Zagreb on Thursday. Some 300 workers gathered to express dissatisfaction with the management's intention to separate non-profitable services from the company during its restructuring. The employees, led by HT unions, are against that plan fearing that by the end of this year 5,000 workers employed in cafeterias, food-catering and maintenance of vehicles and buildings, may be laid off. After protesters threatened to remain in front of the administration building until some from the management address them, Ivica Mudrinic appeared before the demonstrators and told them that the HT restructuring was necessary so
ZAGREB, March 29 - No employee with the Croatian Telekom (Hrvatski
Telekom or HT) will be made redundant because of the restructuring
of the company, the HT Management Board chairman, Ivica Mudrinic,
told workers who staged a protest rally in front of the
administration building in the downtown Zagreb on Thursday.
Some 300 workers gathered to express dissatisfaction with the
management's intention to separate non-profitable services from
the company during its restructuring.
The employees, led by HT unions, are against that plan fearing that
by the end of this year 5,000 workers employed in cafeterias, food-
catering and maintenance of vehicles and buildings, may be laid
off.
After protesters threatened to remain in front of the
administration building until some from the management address
them, Ivica Mudrinic appeared before the demonstrators and told
them that the HT restructuring was necessary so that the entire
business activities of the company and all jobs would not be at
risk.
"Nobody will be sacked and the job is guaranteed to all of you,"
Mudrinic told them adding that unions did not inform workers
correctly of the management's stands.
Armin Schubert, a member of the HT management, said that Deutsche
Telekom (DT) , the co-owner of the HT, wanted a profitable HT but no
at the cost of dismissal of employees.
"Only if the company is sound and successful on the market, there
will be no layoffs," he explained.
Unionists and the management agreed on the postponement of all
activities in relation to the company's restructuring for some 15
days during which workers may be fully informed about the
consequences of the HT restructuring.
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