L'Express and L'Impartial: Eight members of the editorial team are dismissed
At the Neuchâtel daily newspapers L'Impartial and L'Express, eight people are being laid off due to declining advertising revenue, following some back-and-forth between the publisher and the editorial staff. The restructuring is leading to a redefinition of the editorial mission of both newspapers.
There will definitely be redundancies at the Neuchâtel newspapers L'Express and L'Impartial. Eight members of the editorial team will receive the pink slip, instead of ten as initially planned. The publisher of the two newspapers, Société Neuchâteloise de Presse (SNP), announced the redundancies on Friday. 2.3 jobs can be cut through voluntary reductions in working hours. The editorial staff had made this alternative to the redundancies possible.
The SNP had already dismissed four members of the editorial team two weeks ago. Another four were dismissed on Friday. All those affected have been informed, the SNP wrote. A social plan is planned for those affected, SNP director Jacques Matthey told the news agency SDA. At the beginning of November, the SNP announced a total of 15 job cuts at the two newspapers, ten of which were journalists or photographers, due to a slump in advertising revenue. In mid-November, the editors of L'Express and L'Impartial went on strike for two days in protest.
In negotiations, the publishing house and staff then agreed on four redundancies for the time being. In addition, a permit for short-time work for six editors was to be obtained from the canton, but this was rejected by the Office of Labor. The SNP editors then proposed voluntary reductions in their workloads. The restructuring will lead to a new definition of the editorial remit of the two newspapers. The SNP, which is controlled by the French Hersant Group, announced that working groups would be formed from next week to consider the development of the two papers.
The SNP had already dismissed four members of the editorial team two weeks ago. Another four were dismissed on Friday. All those affected have been informed, the SNP wrote. A social plan is planned for those affected, SNP director Jacques Matthey told the news agency SDA. At the beginning of November, the SNP announced a total of 15 job cuts at the two newspapers, ten of which were journalists or photographers, due to a slump in advertising revenue. In mid-November, the editors of L'Express and L'Impartial went on strike for two days in protest.
In negotiations, the publishing house and staff then agreed on four redundancies for the time being. In addition, a permit for short-time work for six editors was to be obtained from the canton, but this was rejected by the Office of Labor. The SNP editors then proposed voluntary reductions in their workloads. The restructuring will lead to a new definition of the editorial remit of the two newspapers. The SNP, which is controlled by the French Hersant Group, announced that working groups would be formed from next week to consider the development of the two papers.
