Agreement for layoffs

You will be vacant, but may keep the job and your compensation is better than a fund. It is the substance of the permitteringsavtal that IF Metall and the employers made up of – This is an extreme position and a temporary agreement. Several of our members will avoid going to a fund, says IF Metall agreements Secretary Veli-Pekka Säikkälä.
Today, 25 000 of the IF Metall members unemployed, 40 000 are pending. The development is dramatic – the threat is mass unemployment. Now some help to keep the job.
IF Metall, Technology Employers, Meta Group and Industrial and chemical group have reached an agreement on the framework for layoffs, and training.
The agreement is valid until March 31, 2010 and has a notice in three months.
The agreement requires that a local agreement.
- Upon termination, the central, all local agreements, ”said Veli-Pekka Säikkälä.

The permit that the vessel should be completely exempt work and always have at least 80 percent of outgoing monthly salary plus ob-compensation.
Those who work two shifts and lay out on the evening shift has a minimum of 80 percent of the salary he would have had, including ob-addition.

IF Metall has during the autumn and winter has proposed several measures to politicians and employers about money and training to survive the crisis. Gehöret has been non-existent.
- Now we see an agreement where our members can do a private. Then we see that the government injects money training. If the employer sends people home, they have still 80 percent left to pay, ”said Veli-Pekka Säikkälä.