Media News - Friday, May 16, 2008
Le Monde staff back revised cuts plan
Staff at Le Monde have approved a fresh plan from the paper's management, bringing to an end more than a month of turmoil at France's most prestigious newspaper. Employees voted 81 to one in favour of the measures, with seven abstentions. The new plan is designed to reduce compulsory redundancies and extends the deadlines for staff to take up voluntary redundancy until June 30. It replaces a management plan to axe 129 jobs, involving 87 newsroom staff - one in four journalists. Once voluntary redundancies are taken up, trade unions and management will together ‘evaluate the savings made by these departures,’ according to a joint statement. Other savings will be sought through reassigning staff. Forced redundancies, if they happen, would take place in September rather than in mid-July, with a guarantee that no one will be sacked during the summer holidays. The agreement brings to an end weeks of protests at the paper that included three one-day strikes and two work stoppages. The industrial action prevented the evening daily from coming out on three separate occasions. Employees were also protesting at the planned sale of assets including a religious bookshop chain, cult cinema magazine Les Cahiers du Cinéma, a publishing house and a monthly magazine on dancing. (The Guardian)
Bookmark this :
|
Listen to this article
|
Sphere: Related Content
Subscribe
Join our Media News mailinglist with over 12.000 subscribers.
Search archive
The Media News archive contains over 15.000 items so it is advised to narrow your search.
Time Machine
| July 2008 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| S | M | T | W | T | F | S |
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||
| 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 |
| 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 |
| 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 |
| 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | ||
Syndicate
Popular articles
- Startup lets public test conversational Web search
- MySpace opens doors to developers MySpace webpage
- Acclaimed photo was faked
- Iran: Leading women’s magazine forced to close
- User-generated breaking news and open source reporting website launched
- Platform lets bloggers download creative and editorial imagery from Getty Images
- EU to promote ‘media literacy’ among citizens
- NUJ warns of multimedia concerns
- New website reaches out to EU Neighbourhood Journalists
- European research project to shape next generation Internet TV