CGD: Government assumes reduction of 2,500 employees by 2019 – TVI24

After all must be at least 2,500 the number of employees that the Caixa Geral de Depósitos will reduce under the restructuring plan.

The number It confirmed the Union of workers group CGD by the Secretary of the Treasury, Ricardo Mourinho Félix.

“the planned reduction in the number of workers will be the order of 2 500. Although such an assessment is made by the new administration and foreseeing its implementation from 2017 and over 3 years, “said the head of the Government in response to STEC’s questions.

According to the union was, however, assured that” no there will be redundancies and that the reduction would undergo reforms or early retirement, always by agreement between CGD and the worker “.

About cutting the number of branches, the Secretary of State said it will mostly occur abroad as he had already left understood the Finance Minister Mario Centeno. Therefore, outside “the interests of the CGD and its customers would be guaranteed by a local bank through preferential agreement.”

But Mourinho Felix made clear that “the level of Palop, the betting plan a sustainable growth. “

the union in a statement it issued on the meeting declared that” the government assumes, without reservation, a totally public capital CGD, with a never smaller than the current in terms of market share but would support more businesses, particularly SMEs, more closely, and continue to be for the population the trustee of their savings and their reference bank. “

the union also turned to point the finger at “the secrecy that has surrounded the names of the new administration and the information circulating in the press that all will come from the same private bank. – BPI

But on the new administration, Mourinho Felix said only that “the entry into the future administration functions pending a new EC obligation (the assessment of the suitability of the proposed elements)” and did not hide that the Government “is also quite concerned about the image wear CGD, in particular what is come to pass in the Parliamentary Commission of inquiry “.

a commission that takes office tomorrow.