Lower Saxony Finance minister Reinhold Hilbers has in the discussion about aid from the country for those in crisis Deutsche Messe AG calls for a reduction in personnel costs. “We will have to come to socially acceptable adjustments in the personnel body,” said the CDU politician in an interview with the “New Osnabrück newspaper” (Monday). Some areas could be outsourced to service providers. “I wonder, for example, whether we employ our own gardeners and they too Gastronomy have to operate it yourself. The same applies to the technical area. “
Hilbers is for one guarantee – instead of one Capital increase
In return posed Hilbers a guarantee of the country in prospect, with which the fair could more easily obtain new loans. That is a better way than one Capital increaseas required by the employee side. “What you can’t do with me is just pour money into it and pretend nothing has happened,” said Hilbers. The state holds around half of the shares in Messe AG.
The exhibition company has in the Corona-Krise to struggle with serious loss of income, among other things because of the cancellation of the world’s largest industrial show Hannover Messe. According to media reports, there is a risk of a loss of up to 100 million euros this year.
IG Metall: The threat of bankruptcy must be taken off the table
In the dispute over the Austerity and downsizing at the Deutsche Messe AG is the IG Metall now open to an offer from management, but subject to several conditions. One would support a proposal by the employer to save up to 60 million euros, the union said on Monday Hannover. Parts of the compromise would include an expansion of short-time working into 2021 with a canceled increase in short-time working allowance, the waiver of benefits above the collective bargaining agreement, and a socially acceptable reduction in jobs, e.g. through partial retirement and a volunteer program.
In return, however, the company must “take the threat of bankruptcy off the table,” said a member of the negotiating team. In addition, there should be an exclusion of compulsory redundancies for the remaining trade fair employees, and the board of directors must “make a contribution, for example certain pension commitments from Deutsche Messe AG significantly reduce for managers ”.
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