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On 5 October 2020, the Airbus SE Works Council rendered its opinion on the Odyssey project, which involves the loss of 15,000 jobs by the end of 2021 according to the plans of the central management. The information and consultation process had started on 30 June 2020 and included ten meetings. The SE works council wanted exclusively to push for voluntary measures for the job cuts, but was unable to achieve this. As a result, negotiations on this fundamental issue are now to take place separately in each country.
In order to evaluate and properly understand the project, the SE works council commissioned two consultancy firms. With their support, an in-depth dialogue could be held with the concerned business units as well as with the group's management. The resulting report contains an analysis of the transfer of personnel, the losses in jobs and competencies, the accompanying social measures as well as redeployment at the various sites throughout Europe. Central management agreed to consider all proposed alternatives and discuss them during negotiations in each country. The SE works council is making the report available to all local works councils, "in order to eliminate any risk of compulsory redundancies. The burden of the crisis - triggered by the Coronavirus pandemic – should not be put on the backs of workers."
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The SE Works Council also requested that monthly meetings be continued until the Odyssey project has been fully implemented, in order to ensure constructive negotiations in all countries, as well as the follow-up and consolidation of social measures. Collective bargaining on the future of jobs in Germany started on 24 September 2020 and a collective agreement on job security was signed in France on 12 October 2020. There will be no compulsory redundancies in the German Airbus sites at least until the end of March 2021.
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