Friday, November 28, 2008

Telekom closes call less than planned

Deutsche Telekom closes call less than originally planned. The number of nationwide locations of Deutsche Telekom Service GmbH will be until mid-2011 from 63 to 33 reduced. Then the group agreed on the night of Friday with employee representatives. Thus, it is now only 33 enter service - 50 fewer than at present. Under the original plans of Telekom, the number of locations even be reduced to 24.

Besides Trier and Schwerin will now also service in Bremen, Dresden, Heilbronn, Mainz, Meschede and Berlin remain. In addition, at four locations (Stockport, Southampton, Westerwede and one southwest of Bonn) new call center built for employees of other indoor locations and to their journey times to be reduced. However, now in comparison to the original list the locations of Leipzig, Bonn and Oldenburg away.

Particularly affected employees should also posts in the vicinity of their place of residence at six locations in the telecom subsidiary, Vivento Customer Services GmbH (VCS) received. For every 33 customers Center and the six VCS sites are a location Telekom guarantee until 2012.

According to Telekom agreed to the negotiators also on a social plan with a total volume of up to 40 million euros. Affected by the restructuring are approximately 8000 of a total of 18 000 full-and part-time employees. In recent months had repeatedly call center employees nationwide against the plans for the closure and merger demonstrates.

A Telekom spokesman said that the measures lead to savings of around 57 million euros a year will lead. The company will be after his claims about 70 million euros in restructuring invest. Each person will, as planned, will receive a job offer.

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