Agreement on a social plan for Huber Printpack

 
The Huber Printpack works committee, the Comedia and Syna trade unions and Huber & Co. have agreed on a social plan for the employees affected by the job cuts at Huber Printpack. The employees of Huber Printpack approved the social plan on Friday. The social plan is intended to mitigate the economic consequences of the job cuts and support the professional reorientation of the affected employees. The reduction of 39 full-time positions at the Huber Group is a consequence of the partial sale of the commercial and packaging printing business of Huber Printpack announced on September 17, 2007 (See:
). Druckerei Flawil, a printing and publishing house in Eastern Switzerland, takes over the commercial printing division of Huber Printpack and the magazine publishing division of Huber & Co. as of November 1, 2007. Also in November, the St. Gallen-based family business K+D takes over the packaging printing division. The takeover by the two long-established companies is intended to secure around 80 full-time jobs in the long term.