Social plan
Monday morning at 9 o’clock it will most likely be announced at a special works council that some of the 2,500 jobs at Van Hool will be lost.
A large part of Van Hool’s production would move to North Macedonia. The intention would be to stop producing city buses and concentrate on coaches from now on. As a result, a dismissal procedure will probably be started on Monday via the Renault law.
It is expected that Van Hool will come up with a concrete plan for a restart of the healthy parts of the bus company. Every party involved, including politicians, will have to decide in the coming days how much money it wants to put on the table and under what conditions. The position of the banks in particular is becoming very important.
The Flemish government hopes for a restart of the factory in Koningshooikt, but any financial support will be temporary at best and linked to strict conditions. “We will not subsidize jobs in North Macedonia,” said the voice in Wetstraat. (nta)
