Thursday, 21st May 2020, Velenje
Gorenje has already reduced the number of layoffs due to business reasons by 40%
At the end
of April, due to a sharp drop in orders and revenues as a result of the
coronavirus epidemic, the Hisense Europe Group launched a redundancy program in
four companies in Slovenia. After adopting the criteria for determining
redundant workers, in which the trade union did not want to participate, we
then reached an additional agreement according to which in any Hisense Gorenje
company where there are redundancies, both of the spouses or extramarital
partners can not lose their jobs, also any single parents will not be made
redundant in any of the companies. Until the
preparation of the draft redundancy program for the company Gorenje, d. o. o.,
which we have already presented to the trade union, we have managed to reduce
the number of layoffs due to business reasons in this company by 40%, from the originally planned
544 to 327.
In the
disability company I.P.C. we will not implement the redundancy program at all,
as the law does not require this with such a small number of redundancies (the
number of redundancies in I.P.C. will be less than 29, instead of the
originally assessed 84). The company will terminate the employment contract for
business reasons with employees with disabilities only if the conditions set
out in the regulations on pension and disability insurance or in the
regulations governing vocational rehabilitation and employment of the disabled
are met.
If, after
the procedure is completed, the demand for workers reappears in one of the
Hisense Gorenje companies or with other employers, we will provide these
companies with information on the number and category of redundant workers in
order to facilitate their re-employment. We will also inform redundant workers about
the offer of available jobs in the areas where they live.
Companies
of the Hisense Europe Group in Slovenia became partially (as far as they are
entitled and those companies that are entitled) involved in state intervention
measures, but labour costs, considering the drastically reduced business volume,
are still negatively affecting the business result. As the state limited the
amount of aid to EUR 800,000 for an individual company with the amendment to
the intervention law, we are only entitled to EUR 1.7 million in aid for all
companies in Slovenia (and no longer to EUR 5.3 million as before the
restriction). Gorenje's expected loss in the first half of the year will amount
to EUR 41 million, given the decline in orders, which continues in May and June.