Tamedia/Edipresse: Oetwil printing center to be closed
The media companies Edipresse and Tamedia have jointly established a long-term newspaper printing strategy. The strategy calls for decentralized printing centers in the Espace Mittelland, in French-speaking Switzerland, and in the Zurich region. The printing center in Oetwil am See will close in 2011. As a result, 71 jobs will be lost.
At the same time, Edipresse and Tamedia are investing around CHF 15 million in the modernization of the Bussigny and Bubenberg printing centers. At the Centre d'Impression Edipresse in Bussigny, three printing presses from 1989 will be replaced by two modern presses from Oetwil. This investment will secure the future of the Bussigny site, which employs around 229 people, according to a press release issued on Thursday. The measures, which will increase the capacity utilization of the three printing centers in Bern, Bussigny and Zurich, are intended to reduce some of the high overcapacity in the Swiss newspaper printing market.
The concentration on three locations will lead to job cuts in Bussigny and Oetwil am See. 20 of the 55 permanent employees at the Oetwil printing center will be offered a position at the Bubenberg printing center in Zurich, while a further 16 will be offered early retirement. 19 employees cannot be kept on. In addition, 41 contracts with employees on low hourly wages will be terminated. To support the affected employees in Oetwil, a job center is being set up together with a job placement company. In Bussigny, 16 of the 245 employees will be made redundant, 4 of whom will take early retirement. A social plan will be implemented for all those affected.
Comedia called on the Group to offer a hand for a generous social plan. The planned redundancies must be suspended, the media union wrote in a press release. The company must offer new jobs to more than just 20 people. Comedia was disconcerted that the company had not discussed alternative measures to redundancies with the social partners - and this only weeks after the presentation of very good half-year figures.
The concentration on three locations will lead to job cuts in Bussigny and Oetwil am See. 20 of the 55 permanent employees at the Oetwil printing center will be offered a position at the Bubenberg printing center in Zurich, while a further 16 will be offered early retirement. 19 employees cannot be kept on. In addition, 41 contracts with employees on low hourly wages will be terminated. To support the affected employees in Oetwil, a job center is being set up together with a job placement company. In Bussigny, 16 of the 245 employees will be made redundant, 4 of whom will take early retirement. A social plan will be implemented for all those affected.
Comedia called on the Group to offer a hand for a generous social plan. The planned redundancies must be suspended, the media union wrote in a press release. The company must offer new jobs to more than just 20 people. Comedia was disconcerted that the company had not discussed alternative measures to redundancies with the social partners - and this only weeks after the presentation of very good half-year figures.
