TCG Unitech under pressure: 880 employees before termination!

TCG Unitech under pressure: 880 employees before termination!

Kirchdorf an der Krems, Österreich - The Upper Austrian car supplier TCG Unitech ensures headlines with a controversial procedure to deny the collective wage and salary increase of 4.8 percent. Instead of paying the increase, the company threatened to register more than 880 employees at the labor market service (AMS) for termination. Managing Director Thomas Schmalzer explained that this was intended as a means of pressure in order to move the employees to avoid the wage increase, which was called "morally insane" by union representatives, as krone.at reported.

The registration of the company was confirmed, with Schmalzer emphasized at the same time that the goal was not termination, but the avoidance of a massive increase in personnel costs. He hopes for the understanding of his employees and explained that in a first phase, the employees should voluntarily decide whether they wanted to do without the wage increase. If you do not agree, you could receive an notice of change in a second phase. Many see this as a dangerous precedent that could find imitators in the current economic situation, which Michael Seemayer from Pro-Ge criticized as "sad methods". He called for an ordinary negotiation on a social plan if there should actually be dismissals, so Kleinezeitung.at .

As far as the future of the company concerns, Schmalzer explains that TCG Unitech relies on long -term competitiveness, in particular through new projects in the field of electromobility. The demand for wages is viewed critically from many sides, since the uncertain location in the mobility industry and the competitive pressure situation could increase the pressure on employees.