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TNT says dismissals & part time work are not to be avoided

TNT says that after union members rejected a proposal in May to for the reorganization at TNT in the Netherlands, it has decided to go ahead with thousands of job cuts. In May, TNT's postal workers refused to accept a collective labour agreement causing job cuts for its full-time employees. Then the management decided to scrap 11,000 jobs in three years time. According to TNT, the liberalisation of the postal market means that in six years, the company will only be trying to employ workers so that there will be no more postal workers working full time. The company only wants to employ part-time workers from now on.



The postal market has been completely liberalised on April 1, making it possible for TNT's competitors Sandd and Selekt Mail to deliver all kinds of post. At the moment, Sand and Selekt Mail are still paying their employees piece wages, but they have agreed to employ eighty per cent as full-time workers within the next 3.5 years.