Status: 07/28/2021 9:20 p.m.
At the Papenburg Meyer shipyard, 450 jobs will be cut. That is the result of the negotiations between management and the employee side, which was presented on Wednesday.
After the fronts in Germany’s largest shipbuilding company had hardened for months, Lower Saxony’s former Finance Minister Jürgen-Peter Schneider (SPD) successfully moderated the negotiations.
At the beginning it was said that 1,000 employees had to leave
At Meyer Werft there will be a reduction of 350 employees, 100 employees will have to leave the subsidiary EMS Maritime Services. The management of Meyer Werft originally wanted to cut more than 1,000 of a total of 3,900 jobs. Most recently there was talk of cutting at least 660 positions. “We have managed to reduce the numbers,” said works council chairman Nico Bloem at a works meeting. He spoke of an “acceptable compromise”.
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Dismantling with a volunteer program and transfer company
Because of the crisis in the cruise industry, the shipyard has 40 percent less work and must save 1.2 billion euros. A volunteer program and a transfer company are designed to keep the number of redundancies as low as possible. The remaining employees will work 100 hours a year free of charge. The agreement should apply by the end of 2023.
“A good chance for a new beginning”
Of the IG Metall members at the shipyard, a majority of 62 percent were in favor of the changes to the collective agreement, as Bloem announced on Wednesday evening. In the case of EMS, approval was even at 70 percent. The works council also approved the agreement with company management. It is a good chance for a fresh start for the cooperation with the works council and the union “, says managing director Bernard Meyer. According to him, Meyer Werft, especially the Rostock subsidiary Neptun, is building two new tankers for the German armed forces I also have an order to build a residential ship with more than 130 apartments.
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