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Administrative Services Office Administrative, Office Support And Other Business Support Activities Activities Of Call Centres 82.2 - Activities of call centres
60 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
26 September 2016
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
Description
Finnish customer service call centre has initiated employer-employee negotiations aiming to cut up to 60 positions. The reason for the redundancies are less calls to the 118-service, a directory inquiry service for telephone numbers and addresses. In total 155 individuals will be affected by the negotiations. After the internal restructuring to employee will work solemnly with the 118-service.
Sources
26 September 2016: Proliitto
Citation
Eurofound (2016), Fonecta, Internal restructuring in Finland, factsheet number 88728, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/88728.
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