New bank wants to cut a thousand jobs – Daily News – Lisbon

Commission workers said that management proposed that the 500 employees are removed through a collective dismissal

The plan of New Bank restructuring implies the output 500 “through the use of a collective dismissal”, earlier this year, said Thursday the commission of the New Bank workers (CNT).

at a meeting of administration with the works council, the president Eduardo Stock da Cunha told workers that “in the wake of the EU tax restructuring plan,” we need to reduce 500 jobs, said the commission in a statement.

“the NTC will soon be informed of the criteria to be used and the structures that are likely to close,” said the organization, which fully shows against this solution. “We informed that we do not accept or we covenant in any way, with collective redundancies in our bank,” said the organization which represents the workers.

The CNT has stressed that “the workers of the New Bank are serious professionals and honest and has no responsibility for what happened with the BES, in August 2014, “promising to” fight to the limit “for the maintenance of all jobs and the maintenance of acquired rights.” we call on all workers who do not sign any document without reference to the CNT or your union, “stressed the organization.

In a later statement, the CNT stressed that he preferred the nationalization as an alternative” fairer “restructuring. “We will fight for another form of solution and the suspension of this measure,” it read in the statement.

Later, the Bank of Portugal expressed its support for the implementation of the restructuring “approved by the European authorities” praising Eduardo management Stock da Cunha.

last year, the New Bank cut the number of employees in 411 to 7,311 employees and reduced 40 agencies for a total of 635, according to the figures presented in Wednesday by the institution for the dissemination of the 2015 accounts.

the number of workers in the domestic market fell to 6,571 employees last year, less 261 than in 2014 and were closed 35 agencies for a total 596 in Portugal.

But the reduction in capacity of the bank, either in Portugal or abroad, does not stop there, according to the leader of the organization, Eduardo da Cunha Stock. “Since January we have been talking to some employees of the house on their way out. For institutional respect, we propose first [the effective reduction plan] the structures of workers and trade unions, as well as the relevant authorities before the announced publicly, “said Stock da Cunha.

the manager spoke during the presentation of results press conference of the New Bank in 2015, marked by a loss of 980.6 million euros. Most of this amount, close to EUR 770 million, were the responsibility of the legacy Holy Spirit, stressed yesterday Eduardo Stock da Cunha.

corrected News at 18:43