Belgian De Post/La Poste to cut 6,640 full-time jobs by 2010
Belgian postal services company De Post/La Poste will cut 6,640 full-time jobs by 2010, reducing its staff for the first time ever to less than 30,000, according to Belgian newspaper Le Soir, it was reported on October 10, 2005.
The measure is part of the business plan which De Post/La Poste has worked out with the national post office Post Denmark in the framework of their cooperation.
De Post/La Poste will not lay off any employees. The downsizing will consist in 2,200 retirements, 1,630 early retirements, voluntary redundancies and people who will switch over to part-time work.
De Post/La Poste plans to create 2,000 new jobs in order to strengthen its teams.
The company’s management did not comment.
(Editor’s note: Belgian Budget and Public Enterprises Minister, Johan Vande Lanotte, plans to complete the partial privatisation of Belgian postal services company De Post/La Poste by the middle of October 2005, the Belgian News Digest reported on September 9, 2005.)
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