Telecommunications companies, and especially those that are mainly engaged in mobile telephony, are in the midst of a serious crisis in Denmark. In early November 2002, a confidential report from the new top management of the Danish division of Orange, the French-owned mobile telephone company, was leaked to the press. The report recommended large-scale redundancies in connection with a major restructuring process. This leak immediately led to the dismissals of some of the employees who had received the report. Shortly afterwards, management publicly stated that 400 out of 1,000 employees would be made redundant as part of a major economic restructuring process. The employees were informed at a number of meetings, and Orange has taken the initiative to launch negotiations over the job losses with employee representatives, and has informed the Confederation of Danish Industries (Dansk Industri, DI).
In November 2002, the management of Orange, the French-owned mobile telephone company, announced that it was to make redundant about 400 employees in its Danish division. The job losses will bring the number of recent redundancies in Denmark's telecommunications sector to around 1,000.
Telecommunications companies, and especially those that are mainly engaged in mobile telephony, are in the midst of a serious crisis in Denmark. In early November 2002, a confidential report from the new top management of the Danish division of Orange, the French-owned mobile telephone company, was leaked to the press. The report recommended large-scale redundancies in connection with a major restructuring process. This leak immediately led to the dismissals of some of the employees who had received the report. Shortly afterwards, management publicly stated that 400 out of 1,000 employees would be made redundant as part of a major economic restructuring process. The employees were informed at a number of meetings, and Orange has taken the initiative to launch negotiations over the job losses with employee representatives, and has informed the Confederation of Danish Industries (Dansk Industri, DI).
Orange is the latest in a series of telecommunications company which have undertaken large-scale redundancies over the last few months in an attempt to challenge the position of the former state-owned TeleDanmark which is now owned by the US-based TDC. However, this has turned out to be very difficult. In October 2002, the Swedish-owned Telia made redundant 250 employees in its Danish customer service division, Telia Networks, about half of the workforce. Shortly beforehand, the Italian-owned Tiscali, which had only recently entered the Danish market, informed its 223 employees that 110 of them would lose their jobs. A fourth telecommunications company, Sonofon, has also been hit. From the end of the third quarter of 2001 to the same point in 2002, the company cut 421 full-time jobs through efficiency-promoting measures.
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Eurofound (2002), Mass redundancies in telecommunications, article.
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