Booking.com has said it will not make changes to the social and voluntary redundancy plans it has drawn up for the hundreds of workers who face losing their jobs, despite union members’ rejection of the proposals, the Financieele Dagblad reported on Thursday.
Employees have said the offer is too thin and does not give its international workforce enough time to find a new job in the Netherlands. In addition, “the reorganisation plans are too vague, making it unclear why a reorganisation has to take place and who will or will not be affected,” trade union federation CNV said.
The company said last November it planned to take steps to boost efficiency and that this would involve job losses, but it did not say how many of the 5,000-strong workforce in the Netherlands faced redundancy.
Booking.com presented its social plan to workers at the beginning of this month – required under Dutch law when jobs are being cut – but unions have refused to…
