Dispute over social plan at Südostschweiz Group

 The Comedia trade union and Hanspeter Lebrument are at odds over job cuts at Engadin Press in Samedan. Comedia is demanding a social plan because of the redundancies. Lebrument, the publisher of the Südostschweiz Media Group, does not want to know anything about this. At Engadin Press, ten of a total of 27 jobs have been closed due to the closure of the calendar equipment factory. According to Lebrument, Engadin Press is not an independent company, but a branch of Südostschweiz Print, which employs a total of 160 people. The redundancies announced in November were therefore not mass redundancies. A social plan was not necessary, said publisher Lebrument on Thursday when asked by SDA. According to Lebrument, ten new jobs were created in the Engadin region to counteract the redundancies. The employment situation of two or three employees is still unresolved.
The Comedia trade union, on the other hand, announced on Thursday that the employees affected by the dismissal would find it difficult to find a new job in Engadin. Most of them have been with the company for between 20 and 30 years and several are over 60 years old. Following a staff meeting at the beginning of January, Comedia was instructed to negotiate a social plan with the management of Südostschweiz.