SRG cuts 100 jobs
SRG will cut 100 full-time positions over the next four years. The cuts will affect departments such as IT infrastructure, real estate, logistics, human resources and training, communications, marketing, and accounting.
By 2014, 100 full-time positions will be cut across the entire SRG organization. Radio and television want to use the savings to finance the convergence project and secure in-house productions. The job cuts will take place in the support area and will be absorbed over a period of several years and mainly through natural fluctuation, SRG announced on Thursday. IT infrastructure, real estate, logistics, personnel and training, communication as well as marketing and accounting are affected.
As part of the planned merger of radio and television, SRG launched an efficiency program last June. The aim was to increase the productivity of the support services and reduce the current costs of around CHF 230 million by at least 10 percent. According to SRG, the entire support area comprises around 850 full-time positions. Of these, 100 will be cut by 2014. This includes both outsourcing and job cuts. A social plan is in place for those affected. The areas of controlling and legal services have not yet been reviewed.
SRG also announced that the job cuts will save around CHF 17 million from 2011. The savings volume should then gradually increase to around 33 million by 2014. According to SRG, the structural deficit cannot be offset by savings alone. The financial impact of the efficiency projects had already been taken into account in the medium-term planning and in the "Financial requirements 2011 to 2014" report.
SRG intends to use the savings - if possible - to finance the implementation of the convergence project with the planned merger of radio and television into regional business units. On the other hand, the funds are needed to promote in-house productions in line with the concession, writes SRG.
SSM protests
The Swiss Syndicate of Media Professionals (SSM) protested against the job cuts in a press release. SRG employees have been suffering from increasing stress for years as a result of efficiency gains. Without an improvement in the financial basis, the job cuts will continue.
The social plan is unacceptable to the media union. Anyone who rejects transfers, wage reductions or a reduction in workload should not receive any benefits from the social plan. These clauses are superfluous and unfair. In the current situation, no one would risk their job lightly in order to collect a "meagre severance payment".
As part of the planned merger of radio and television, SRG launched an efficiency program last June. The aim was to increase the productivity of the support services and reduce the current costs of around CHF 230 million by at least 10 percent. According to SRG, the entire support area comprises around 850 full-time positions. Of these, 100 will be cut by 2014. This includes both outsourcing and job cuts. A social plan is in place for those affected. The areas of controlling and legal services have not yet been reviewed.
SRG also announced that the job cuts will save around CHF 17 million from 2011. The savings volume should then gradually increase to around 33 million by 2014. According to SRG, the structural deficit cannot be offset by savings alone. The financial impact of the efficiency projects had already been taken into account in the medium-term planning and in the "Financial requirements 2011 to 2014" report.
SRG intends to use the savings - if possible - to finance the implementation of the convergence project with the planned merger of radio and television into regional business units. On the other hand, the funds are needed to promote in-house productions in line with the concession, writes SRG.
SSM protests
The Swiss Syndicate of Media Professionals (SSM) protested against the job cuts in a press release. SRG employees have been suffering from increasing stress for years as a result of efficiency gains. Without an improvement in the financial basis, the job cuts will continue.
The social plan is unacceptable to the media union. Anyone who rejects transfers, wage reductions or a reduction in workload should not receive any benefits from the social plan. These clauses are superfluous and unfair. In the current situation, no one would risk their job lightly in order to collect a "meagre severance payment".
