A social plan concluded between Tamedia and the employees of the printing center
The agreement is deemed “satisfactory” by Syndicom. Half of the employees will be able to stay, following negotiations on the restructuring presented in May.
The Lausanne Printing Center (CIL) notably prints “24 heures” and “Le Temps”. Photo Darrin Vanselow LMS 2018
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A “satisfactory” social plan has been concluded between the employees of the Center d’Impression Lausanne (CIL), in Bussigny, and the Tamedia group, Keystone-ATS has learned. A good half of the 130 employees will be able to stay, as part of the major restructuring of the CIL planned for 2023.
Tamedia had informed the staff on May 4 of a new teamwork model, allowing to balance day and night activities, due to the continuous decrease in workload. “This made it necessary to adjust the staff at the CIL, a site particularly affected by the decline in daytime activity”, recalls the group.
“In concrete terms, these are changes to contracts, dismissals with a job offer at the Bern Printing Center and early retirement. A consultation was carried out with the personnel commission until the end of May and the various measures were pronounced from mid-June”, according to a spokesperson for TX Group, owner of Tamedia.
“All employees were offered a career perspective within Tamedia through personal interviews. A new social plan, largely inspired by the previous version and supplemented by support services in the event of a change of place of work, was concluded at the beginning of July”, indicates the group without giving precise figures.
Limited layoffs
“Between 65 and 70 people should stay on the Bussigny site”, a good half of the staff, according to the Syndicom union. This also confirms that each employee has received a job offer. “And between the transfers to the Bern Printing Center, voluntary departures and early retirements, layoffs at the end of December might be limited,” according to a union official.
“An agreement has been reached on the two or three most important points raised by the personnel committee.”
Syndicom also considers “satisfactory” the social plan concluded during the summer. “The negotiations went well. An agreement has been reached on the two or three most important points raised by the staff committee,” explains the manager. There will be no forced moves on the Bern site and employees refusing this transfer will be entitled to the social plan and severance pay.
In May, Syndicom said it regretted “a new blow to the paper press by the largest publisher in Switzerland and that French-speaking Switzerland is once more penalized”. He pointed out that the drop in volumes was due in particular to decisions by Tamedia, such as the end of the “Morning” week in paper version or the reduction in the pagination of other titles.
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