Deutsche Telekom (DT,) which is trying, by any means, to decrease its workforce, just went through a disappointment. According to the daily newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung , Franz Müntefering, Federal Minister of Employment and Social Affairs, would have refused to give an open ended contract to 2,000 of DT's civil servants, who had already been working for the Federal Employment Agency (BA) for two years. When questioned by eeuropnews, a spokesperson from the employment ministry indirectly confirmed the newspaper's information. (Ref. 070163)
According to Süddeutsche Zeitung (SZ),the telephone company and a part of the government would have welcomed Franz Müntefering’s refusal with discontent. Indeed, two years ago, DT had given “a precious hand” to the federal employment agency during the bustling reform on the labor market (Hartz IV) 1,500 civil servants from Vivento – one of DT’s subsidiaries in charge of reclassifying its employees – and 500 other civil servants directly coming from T-Com, the company’s landline subsidiary, we
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