* The BCR union: "The first layoffs are set to be announced on February 22nd"
* BCR: "The restructuring process is taking place all over the banking system, as a basic consequence of the difficult economic environment"
The layoffs at BCR are set to begin on February 22nd and in a first phase would comprise 207 employees, according to the unionists.
The representatives of BCR claim that the restructuring is necessary, given the difficult economic environment.
The layoffs announced by the management of the Romanian Commercial Bank (BCR) at the end of last year, are set to begin in two weeks, according to the National Employee Union (SNS) of BCR.
The bank officials have said that the restructuring is an ongoing process, which began after the privatization of BCR, which involves the rebuilding of a certain logic in the organization of the branches, given the difficult economic environment.
Ciprian Ionescu, the head of the SNS of BCR, told us: "The effects of the decision of the employer which have been announced to the union so far will take place in stages, starting with February 22nd, 2013, when the employees are expected to receive the first layoff papers (approximately 207, resulting from the closing of the 62 retail units). These layoff decisions will lead to the termination of the work contracts of the employees in question, without any reasons imputable to them, after the expiration of the legal deadline for the notice. Thus, the employees affected by the first Notification of the layoff decision will become unemployed most likely after March 22nd, 2013".
He also said that he is waiting for the response of the Territorial Labor Inspectorate of Bucharest and the Labor Inspection, which have both been notified in January, concerning the first two collective layoff notifications, as well as in the beginning of
