Strikers scuffled with police at Madrid's Barajas airport, where demonstrators held a sit-in to protest against plans for compulsory layoffs and salary cuts.
The BBC said it had made new commitments, including a one-year moratorium on compulsory layoffs, to meet the broadcasters' concerns about a plan to cut 4,000 jobs.
Under the pact with the ver.di union, Allianz pledged that there would be no compulsory layoffs through 2009, two years longer than originally planned, but that it would go ahead with reducing its work force.
The German insurer Allianz said that it had reached a new labor deal that avoids any near-term compulsory layoffs, but still foresees some 5,700 job cuts by the end of 2008.
In a British media report Thursday, Siegel warned the group would probably have to impose compulsory layoffs.
This study focusses on downsizing events with compulsory redundancies, that is, layoffs due to insufficient work being available in one's place of employment [ 19].
Furthermore, given our research focus on people who cannot withdraw from situations of compulsory redundancies – workers who lost their jobs and layoff survivors – we have also excluded 238 employees of downsized organisations who retired, quit or found another job before becoming unemployed.
Finally, although we used data from a nationally representative Swedish workforce cohort, the displaced workers and layoff survivors do not constitute a random sample of all employees exposed to collective compulsory redundancies.
The sample comprised three groups of permanent and temporary workers employed in small (10 to 49 workers), medium and large organisations (≥50 workers): (a) 1845 workers in companies with no downsizing, (b) 1462 layoff survivors, who remained at work and (c) 196 displaced workers who lost their jobs through compulsory redundancies.
Firms are legally required to notify workers of mass layoffs 60 days before the layoff occurs.
