Orange: up to 140 job cuts announced

Activities are being reorganized, job cuts are being examined and a consultation phase is being initiated, according to Orange. During the initial phase in the coming weeks, a potential reduction of around 70 jobs in management and administration is planned. Further adjustments will then be examined in a further phase during the course of the year on the basis of modernized and simplified customer processes, Orange said in the press release.

In addition, at least 60 new jobs are to be created and 18 new Orange Centers are to be opened. This is intended to supplement the current investments of 700 million Swiss francs in the mobile network.

Syndicom sees downsizing as a consequence of the price war

For the Syndicom trade union, this further wave of redundancies within the telecommunications industry comes as no surprise; on the contrary, it was foreseeable, as the union wrote in a press release on Friday. The ruinous and ongoing price cuts in the mobile telephony market and the merger between Orange and Sunrise, which was prevented by the Competition Commission, are among the main reasons for the worrying developments in mobile telephony.

Syndicom welcomes Orange's willingness to involve the union in the consultation process and to subsequently participate in the social plan. The union concludes by saying that it hopes to be able to work with the employee representatives during the consultation process to come up with proposals and solutions relevant to the labor market that will open up new and sustainable career prospects for the affected employees both within and outside Orange.