ING: the bank presents an exemplary social plan according to the De Unie

The management of ING bank and the union De Unie reached agreement on October 4 on a social plan linked to the restructuring announced on November 2, 2005 featuring the outsourcing of 2200 jobs and the suppression of 2800. The parties accepted the commitment to no layoffs. (Ref. 061041).
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De Unie, one of the unions whose members had rejected on July 28 the draft social plan of ING, reached a new agreement on October 4. Robert Schuurman, delegate of supervisory staff at De Unie (97,000 members) considers this social plan “unique” in The Netherlands insofar as “ING management and the unions have accepted the undertaking that there will be no hatchet layoffs”. This is a real challenge, as the financial group ING announced on November 2, 2005 a widespread restructuring plan aiming t

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