Germany – Mass layoffs at the Neckermann

The Neckermann mail order company will close down the whole of its central warehouse in Frankfurt and its textile business at the end of 2012. As already announced in late April, the mail order company, founded in 1950, intends to cut 1,380 of its 2,100 jobs in Frankfurt by the end of the year.

Eight hundred jobs are to go in the company’s logistic department, along with 390 in administration, 140 in the purchasing department and 50 in advertising. The famous Neckermann catalogue will cease to exist.

Employees were shocked and surprised by the news. Until now, 58,000 deliveries have been made to customers every day. The mail order company’s range of products includes approximately 700,000 articles, particularly those from the textile, household wares, toy and technology sectors.

The layoffs are the result of a systematic dismantling of the corporation that once consisted of 18,000 people. The Verdi trade union and its five representatives on the supervisory board colluded with management in this process in order to stifle from the outset any opposition from the workers to the reorganization…

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