Itella to launch statutory labour negotiations
Finnish postal operator, Itella Group will begin statutory labour negotiations this week in Finland. The negotiations will affect both administrative and production functions and will concern around 2,200 people. According to an initial estimate, approximately 390 permanent employees’ current jobs will be made redundant.
The majority of the redundancy will apply to the Helsinki Metropolitan area, but other localities will also be affected. It is being planned that manual mail sorting in Rovaniemi and Kajaani be transferred to the Oulu Post Center for automatic processing. It is expected that the customer service centre operations in Savonlinna will be discontinued, as responsibility for the telephone service regarding transportation services for the elderly and the disabled is being transferred from Itella to the municipalities. In the Lahti region, the statutory labour negotiations will concern Itella Logistics. The majority of Itella jobs in these localities will remain after the negotiations.
The administration’s statutory labour negotiations carried out earlier this year resulted in 70 people being made redundant. By cutting costs and enhancing operations, Itella is preparing itself for the ongoing structural change in the postal industry. Furthermore, the global economic downturn has had a considerable impact on the demand for Itella’s services.
Jukka Alho, President and CEO of Itella said: “It can be seen in Itella’s operations that customers, such as newspaper and magazine publishers and mail order companies, are facing difficult challenges. Our only alternative is to adjust our operations to correspond to the customer demand and needs at the moment as well as in the long term. Postal services are funded entirely with income received from customers; Finland uses no tax money to finance postal services.”
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