Massive discharge round hits Planet Media Group
Internet service provider Planet Media Group, supplier of Planet Internet and The Neat, goes for the second time within a year reorganize. Per 1 January, the KPN-daughter want to scrap 175 jobs, by which also the editings hit becomes heavily.
There already longer rumors went about a possible second discharge round by Planet Media Group (PMG), but in that was mentioned about a quarter of the jobs. This number lies plan be shrunk thus much higher, by which according to the at the employees council voorgelegde especially the Customer Contact Centre (CCC) and the editing.
If the employees council the plans approves, by which the managements round a decision vr 28 November have asked, means that the end of the largest internet editing (25 employees) of the Netherlands. This title used PMG in it lately many and gladly, but the isp scrapes the own news production completely. In the new method only a few editors remain to check actively the of external sources bought news and to give form.
PMG want to put out beside it more helpdesk-activities. This summer all helpdeskvestigingen in Arnhem and end courts were closed, through which 110 jobs perished. For the dismissed employees, the business will organize from 1 January a so-called mobilities center to help they by the finding of a new job.
Furthermore the business the social plan want to get, that uses is before by the closing of the helpdesks in Arnhem and end courts, defense of stable. In this has been taken up also a financile regulation for leaving employees.
PMG thinks draw undertook to can at the herplaatsen of dismissed employees from the positive experiences of mother business KPN, that a similar action by its last discharge round. PMG general manager Bert of Dam speaks in a press message of 'a necessary reorganisation'.
The smaller quantity own co-workers on the customers service and the undressed website have according to Van Dam no consequences for the service. The isp goes thus back from 1 January to its origin: the furnishing of internet entry and the distributing from content.