Announced on Friday 13th @ work,
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Pay-freeze
For the coming year, we will strive for a total freeze of the base salary for all our employees across Europe. In effect, this means that in our upcoming negotiations with unions about CLA’s in the Netherlands and UK we will offer no general pay-increase for 2009. The salaries of our executives and management-group will not be raised. No individual merit increases based on individual performance and development will be granted. Those employees who are promoted during 2009 will not receive an increase in their salary. Their salary-perspective may become higher but this will not affect their pay in 2009.
Furthermore in the Netherlands we will negotiate with the unions that the annual pay-increase of CLA-personnel (a mechanism unknown in UK and Germany) will not be applied in 2009.
I trust upon the commitment of works councils and unions representatives across Europe to deal with these issues in a constructive way. It goes without saying that we will adhere to labour-law and regulations and national CLA’s
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