Job cuts at Le Temps
The French-Swiss daily newspaper Le Temps is also feeling the effects of the crisis. Five people are being laid off, and several others are having to reduce their hours.
As Editor-in-Chief Jean-Jacques Roth said on Radio RSR in French-speaking Switzerland on Monday, a total of ten jobs will be cut. "All departments are affected by the measures," Roth said on the radio. He told the news agency SDA that half of the ten full-time positions would be cut through voluntary reductions in workload and five people would have to be made redundant. The cost-cutting measures will be implemented as early as October 1. According to Roth, staff and management have negotiated a social plan. The fall in advertising revenue had already led to cost-cutting measures in the past, said Roth.
