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We have a joint task and a shared responsi- bility

-Kjeld Johannesen | CEO

We have a joint task and a shared responsibility. And we can only see the task through if we believe in it. Reducing Danish Crown’s payroll costs by 20 per cent per kilogramme represents a huge challenge. But we have come a quarter of the way, and I feel confident we can achieve our goal with the rest. You have to think what the alternative is.

Årsrapport 2009
19.02.09

Have you talked to your job bank today?

Danish Crown looks after employees affected by job cuts. In connection with all company closures, Danish Crown’s social plan is there to help all those made redundant.

Despite a hard-pressed labour market, most of the slaughter-house workers made redun-dant managed to find a job in 2008.

Successful initiative
As part of the social plan, Danish Crown earmarks a sum for each employee. In collaboration with the employees, job banks are set up to help the employees find new jobs, and this has been a successful initiative.

Also, employees are offered an interview to clarify their possible job wishes. Experience has shown that many seize the chance to update their academic qualifications in general or sign up for vocational courses, for example taking a truck or lorry driving licence.

Started a training course
Others embark on a completely different career path, as did 46-year-old Aage Sørensen who, after working at the Danish Crown slaughterhouse in Vojens since 1989, has been training to become a prison officer after the slaughterhouse closed down last year.

Of course it is frustrating when your workplace suddenly closes, but for me it meant that I decided to do this training course. I saw it as an opportunity to try something new, explains Aage Sørensen in February 2009.

Others have taken the leap to become social and health service assistants, teachers or even greenkeepers.

The job banks, which are managed by union representatives and open for nine months, also advertise job vacancies at other companies.

Årsrapport 2009

87 PER CENT BACK IN WORK AFTER CLOSURES 

  • Two facilities have closed – the pig slaughterhouse in Holstebro and the cattle department in Gimsing
  • Moreover, Rødding has been warned that it will close during 2010
  • Also, three departments have been shut down at the cattle slaughterhouse in Holstebro, the sow slaughterhouse in Skærbæk and the pork slaughterhouse in Esbjerg
  • In total, 732 employees – slaughterhouse workers, tradesmen and salaried employees – have been laid off during the year
  • In addition to these are the 308 employees in Rødding, of whom a third have left the department for new jobs
  • In total, 87 per cent of employees at the closed factories and departments have found new work or have started a training programme, or they have taken early retirement or retired
  • Out of the 87 per cent made redundant, 35 per cent have found new jobs within the Danish Crown Group, and 65 per cent with other companies
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