TV 2-the crisis: 63 have been granted a severance package – VG

63 have been granted a severance package in 2 TV, while some have been rejected on the application. Nevertheless, it will be further need to reduce the number of man-years in the channel.

In January came the first sign that TV 2 should tighten into, and the channel went to the time out and informed us that they will cut 350 million until 2020.

the First phase was to offer voluntary redundancy to the channel around 850 employees.

From the previously redaksjonsklubben stated that about 60 of these have been granted a severance package, but after that søkerfristen went out Saturday last week, does not have a TV 2 wanted to comment around the sluttpakkerunden.

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HAS THANKED: news Anchor at TV 2, Mah-Rukh Ali is one of them have thanked yes to the severance package. PHOTO: KLAUDIA LECH, VG

Photo: Klaudia Lech, VG

Got the refusal of the application

Friday letter, however, the channel on the veil and in a press release, can TV 2 to inform that it now involves a total of 63 approved applications.

– We are pleased that we have already in the first round of this process came in goal with 63 volunteer solutions, says the organization and the communications director Sarah C. J. Willand.

In the bigger picture, it is correct to say that the 63 severance pay is a higher number one that we kept ourselves to when we negotiated severance payments in may, ” says the deputy head of the redaksjonsklubben in TV 2, Stein Akre.

the Number of severance pay could not be published at an earlier date, with respect to employees who until recently have been in process with their applications, states the press release.

– Also employees who applied until the deadline has requirements on the orderly and confidential treatment of their applications. We have been clear that we do not wish to comment on or disclose the number of first redundancy before all calls were completed, ” says Sarah C. J. Willand.

To Medier24 informs the communications director that someone also got the rejection of their applications for the severance package.

– There is a small number, a handful of applications, which we have had to say no to. It’s all about that there are key areas of expertise, positions that we had had replaced, ” she says and adds that the employees in question, has chosen to continue in the channel.

severance package: Nils Gunnar Lie has also accepted the severance package in the channel. PHOTO: ERLEND DAAE / VG

Photo: Erlend Daae, VG

Fears

More than fear, however, oppsigelsesspøkelset, and exactly how many employees that need to go, know neither the club nor the management of TV 2 as this is the first phase in the moderniseringsplanen which has received the name “TV 2 in 2020″.

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Although 63 employees were granted their sluttpakkesøknader, there will be further need to reduce the number of man-years in the TV 2, informs the channel. After the VG has reason to believe, should it be up to an additional 120 positions.

– It is a number I whatsoever can’t comment. But we take note that the management has said that further cutbacks in the workforce becomes necessary. In that situation, we mean the specific, and will work hard for, that, this, too, is based on volunteerism, ” says Stein Akre.

– How is the mood among the employees now?

the Entire TV 2 now and waiting on the assembly next week, where the management will present how the “new CHANNELS 2″ should look like. So pending is probably the word, ” says Akre.

– The first sluttpakkene in this place is now also clear. It triggers some of the tension?

– This is a process that has taken a very long time. And it is clear that such a process wreaks havoc on all. And all look forward to the clarification. 63 are many; there are colleagues and friends. But volunteering is, after all, far preferable, rather than layoffs. So layoffs is what all three involved unions are now working hard towards, ” says Stein Akre.

severance package AFTER 23 YEARS: Signe Thinning dried tears when she had her last broadcast as host of “Good morning Norway” in October 2015.

Photo: Jan Petter Lynau, VG

– Painful

TV 2s sales have developed weaker than planned. After seven months shall the channel be 100 million behind the budget, according to the Campaign.

from Among the employees who have expressed concern around the channel cuts are the profile sportskommentatoren Davy Wathne.

I think it will be bloody and terrible tough – much uglier and painful than we have gone around and thought, he said to VG in the end of august.

According to TV 2, there is a predominance of Oslo-based employees within the editorial areas which have been granted a severance package in this round.

From the previously, it is known that among other TV profiles Nils Gunnar Lie, Jan Øyvind Helgesen, Signe Thinning, Mah-Rukh Ali and Jan Ove Ekeberg has taken the severance package. In sportsavdelingen disappear Jahn Ivar “Mini” Jacobsen, Thomas Aune, Freddy dos Santos, Ole Martin Årst and Aleksander Schau, but not all of these have been permanent employees in the channel.