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The company corrected the 700 job cuts previously announced Friday morning. The crisis triggered by the pandemic in the aviation industry put the FACC under great pressure, he said.
Informed staff at block events
Starting at 8 a.m., the staff were informed of the cost reduction measures at the Ried fairgrounds, in block events due to the coronavirus. Short-time work will continue to apply at FACC until the end of September. The aviation crisis that began with the outbreak of the pandemic hit the aircraft supplier hard, with the result that CEO Robert Machtlinger said at the presentation of the semi-annual results in August that it was not far from “the worst-case scenario of 700 persons”.
“Four to five years to pre-Covid 19 level”
Machtlinger expects four to five years to pass before the pre-crisis level is reached again. Therefore, 650 employees would have to be laid off, justifying as inevitable the reduction of the work board. Efforts in recent months to “integrate outsourced products into in-house production, expand the product portfolio through vertical integration, thereby creating around 150 new on-site jobs” have not changed this. “We are aware that this intervention is painful for all affected colleagues, but also for the company,” said Machtlinger.
Elaborated social plan
Machtlinger, representatives of the workforce and responsible unions Bau-Holz and those of private employees, printing, journalism, Upper Austria paper also informed the workforce about the results of the jointly drawn up social plan. In the coming days, talks will be held with affected employees, according to union representatives.
Land talks about a possible foundation model
The state of Upper Austria would like to help affected FACC employees. Governor Thomas Stelzer and Minister of Economic Affairs Markus Achleitner (both ÖVP) discussed a possible foundation model. Employees laid off from the FACC must find a new job through additional training. Stelzer and Achleitner currently see a great need for workers at Innviertel and refer to vacancies at KTM in Mattighofen, for example. The two politicians spoke of a total of some 3,000 vacancies in Innviertel companies.
FPÖ sees domino effect
Lieutenant Governor Manfred Haimbuchner (FPÖ) now sees the “domino effect that the liberties predicted in early summer with waves of layoffs and insolvencies that came in full force”. He called for “long-term sustainable concepts” from the government.
NEOS: help has not yet arrived
NEOS Upper Austria state spokesman Felix Eypeltauer said federal and state aid measures would not come or even “disappear”. The provincial government’s “Upper Austria Package” does not help in any way to support employers like FACC. Eypeltauer renewed its demand for an equity fund and direct grants rather than deferrals and guarantees.
