There may be nice concern at IAC in Torslanda following the corporate’s chapter submitting. Staff threat shedding tens of hundreds of kroner in accrued compensation.
– We have now been loyal and labored evenings, nights and weekends. Now this comes as a chilly bathe, says Jimmy Ekstrand, whose 350 comp hours at the moment are vulnerable to burning inside.
On Thursday morning, part producer IAC’s Swedish subsidiary filed for chapter. The announcement got here as a bolt from the blue for most of the firm’s roughly 1,400 staff. The commerce unions on the firm’s factories in Skara and Färgelanda expressed shock.
Even at IAC’s facility in Torslanda in Gothenburg, the information got here as a chilly bathe. That is what Jimmy Ekstrand says, who has labored on the manufacturing facility for 19 years.
– We have now had full order books. Nobody had any concept that this might occur, he says.
Jimmy Ekstrand. Picture: Non-public.
The conversations on the workshop flooring at the moment are dominated by one matter: comp time. Hundreds of comp hours labored in are vulnerable to burning inside if the chapter is accomplished.
Now Jimmy Ekstrand and lots of of his nearly 500 co-workers are nervous that they’ve been working free of charge.
– We have now adopted Volvo Automobiles’ schedule and final autumn we labored each weekend. One week the night shift, the opposite week the day shift and generally the night time shift.
In Jimmy Ekstrand’s case, it’s regarding 350 comp hours. Virtually 9 weeks of labor. Others have upwards of 400 hours, he says.
– Now the sensation is that we now have labored free of charge throughout the autumn to assist the corporate. We have now been loyal and labored evenings, nights and weekends. Now this comes like a chilly bathe, says Jimmy Ekstrand.
“Can have an effect on our members”
When an organization goes bankrupt, the state wage assure applies. Nevertheless it solely replaces comp time labored within the final three months earlier than submitting for chapter.
Karl-Henrik Rosberg, ombudsman at IF Metall Göteborg, has not had time to familiarize himself with what applies to the IAC intimately. However he says that there’s usually a threat that in-built comp can burn inside.
Karl-Henrik Rosberg, negotiation ombudsman at IF Metall in Gothenburg. Picture: Non-public
– We hope that it doesn’t go that far, however that this shall be resolved. However so far as compensation is worried, the wage assure usually applies as much as a ceiling. However they have to additionally not be receivables that go additional once more than three months. So it should have an effect on our members if comp time is labored in sooner than that, says Karl-Henrik Rosberg.
– I discover it troublesome to see how one may regionally negotiate an settlement that disregards these three months, he provides.
The IF Metall membership can not reply what number of comp hours at the moment are frozen on the IAC in Torslanda. “It’s at present unattainable to prioritize calculating the whole comp time. Each the membership and the corporate should prioritize different issues proper now. Nevertheless it takes many hours,” they write in a textual content message.
Adam Daver
