Trade unions: “70 fewer jobs are disappearing at Dreamland than expected”

Dreamland and Dreambaby could ultimately lose seventy three fewer jobs than previously announced. Colruyt showed this on Thursday after the trade unions ALCVB and BBTK had reported the initial agreement with the management.

On April 19, Colruyt announced that it desired to reduce 192 of the about 1,one hundred jobs at toy shop chain Dreamland and baby equipment chain Dreambaby. One of Dreamland’s forty eight shops and five of Dreambaby’s 32 stores are remaining. The restructuring is going hand in hand with the sale of seventy five percentage of Dreamland to toy shop chain ToyChamp.

In mid-June, Colruyt itself had already indicated in an explanation of the once a year effects of the retail group that activity losses might be lower. Colruyt referred to 151 more affected personnel and the unions hoped to bring that determine down.

“It is true that an settlement in principle has been reached. It went nicely and the trade unions are at the back of it,” says Colruyt’s spokeswoman. “Now we do the internal verbal exchange to the personnel involved.”

The draft settlement nevertheless mentions 119 jobs in order to be lost at the 2 Colruyt subsidiaries. Earlier, the unions had spoken of 117 jobs. According to Colruyt, 91 jobs will disappear at Dreamland: 33 jobs within the stores and 58 inside the central offerings. Dreambaby has 28 jobs, sixteen of that are within the shops and twelve inside the vital offerings.

Colruyt adds that a brand new function is straight away provided to a number of affected employees. “And it's far still being taken into consideration with all of the people worried whether or not they are able to retain to work within the group.” The humans worried are for my part monitored, Colruyt emphasizes.

Wilson Wellens of the liberal alternate union ACLVB and Karen Van de Voorde of the socialist BBTK communicate of a “constructive consultation” with the control. “It remains a unfortunate scenario,” says Wellens. “But the talks went properly. We were in a position to noticeably reduce the wide variety of affected jobs.”

“The wide variety has been reduced due to the fact people have determined every other task,” provides Van de Voorde. They left voluntarily or have every other task within the Colruyt group.” In addition to the statutory cancellation fee, there are extra expenses. For instance, there are reimbursement for individuals who are made redundant, are transferred or go away voluntarily.

The control will tell the team of workers in the stores on Thursday afternoon, the two unions say. If the workforce consents with the draft, the unions will sign the collective hard work settlement subsequent week.