SBB CFF FFS Cargo announces the cut of 200 places of job in the administrative field within 2013



SBB CFF FFS Cargo has announced the cut of 200 places of job in the administrative field within 2013, year in which the society intends to reach the balancing budgetary. The Helvetic railway company has specified that the reduction of the staff will interest in particular the headquarters of Basel and will be suppressed places of work mainly in the within of finances, the distribution and computer science.

SBB CFF FFS Cargo has emphasized that, as of custom near the companies of group SBB CFF FFS and in conformity with the collective bargaining agreement, not there will be lay-offs for the people subordinates to such contracted and that the reduction of the places will be carried out in the limit of the possible one with the natural fluctuation of the staff. Moreover the dependent that will lose the place will be supported by the society in the search of a new activity and in the professional riorientamento.

Remembering to have already strongly increased own productivity during the last few years and adopted optimization measures that have generated savings for beyond 100 million franchi Swiss, SBB CFF FFS Cargo but has explained that the traffic to complete wagons in continuous Switzerland however to generate losses financial institutions (the company has remembered that in the within of own strategic directives the Helvetic federal Council demands that in the mid term the traffic to dear suits of SBB CFF FFS Cargo is able to cover the costs) and that the business risks newly have been sharpened in recent months.

The company therefore has decided the performance of new measures of control of the expenses in a position to generating ulterior Swiss savings for 80 million franchi so as to being able to reach the balancing budgetary within 2013. The measures stretch to the structural cost reduction, that is those which independently weighs on the company from the transported volumes and that in wide part they are constituted by the expenses for staff in the administrative fields. SBB CFF FFS Cargo has specified that own structural costs considerably more are elevated than those today you anticipate in the field of the transports and that therefore the society is not still sufficiently competitive regarding the other operating presents on the market.