Vivento; from reclassification pole to corporate consultancy to temporary work. On March 22, Deutsche Telekom (DT) and the administration of the Land of Saarland signed a cooperation agreement for the temporary employment of 26 employees from Vivento Interim Services, a DT subsidiary, notably to help implement the new telecommunications system of the Saarland police. The Ver.di union approved the agreement. These former DT employees, permanently transferred to the company’s temporary agency, will keep working in their region with the same salary as before. It is indeed what is provided for in the collective agreement covering Vivento (TV Ratio, valid until the end of 2010). The wages paid by Vivento’s clients are lower than that of these employees, many of whom kept the status of civil servant they had before the privatization, so Deutsche Telekom pays for the difference. It is still better than paying workers 100% without having jobs for them, of firing them. “Originally, Vivento was the staff reclassification agency created in the 1990s to manage the major staffing cuts launched by the company» explained Jan Jürczyk, Ver.di spokesman in charge of DT.
telecommunications system of the Saarland police. The Ver.di union approved the agreement. These former DT employees, permanently transferred to the company’s temporary agency, will keep working in their region with the same salary as before. It is indeed what is provided for in the collective agreement covering Vivento (TV Ratio, valid until the end of 2010). The wages paid by Vivento’s clients are lower than that of these employees, many of whom kept the status of civil servant they had befor
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