Knausriger Jean Frey publishing house

Oliver Classen believes that Comedia's appeal to pay two months' severance pay retrospectively to those made redundant at the Jean Frey publishing house is naïve. Without salami-slicing tactics and 40 redundancies, the Weltwoche publisher would not have achieved a double-digit million result, the author complains. But beware: Comedia did not demand the subsequent withdrawal of the redundancies, but merely the payment of minimal benefits, which are usually regulated in a social plan in the case of such mass redundancies. You do the math: Two months' pay for 40 redundant employees with an average salary (highly estimated!) of CHF 7,000 gives a total of CHF 56,000,000. In relation to the 10 million profit proudly announced by CEO Filippo Leutenegger, this is really nothing.
Tina Hoffmann, Regional Secretary Zurich at the media trade union Comedia, on the editorial "Courtship rituals and nasty letters" in WW 8/04.