Bitter Wyborowa layoffs easier to swallow with sweet severance package

By August 12, employees who take up the company's offer to quit on their own will receive an additional parachute payment that will amount to 5 times their monthly wages (with an average gross pay of zł.7,000). The vice president of the company, Andrzej Szumowski, revealed however that employees who have worked over twenty years can hope for 18 times their monthly salaries. The beginning of the layoff program coincides with the end of four-year period of guaranteed contracts offered the moment Wyborowa was taken over by Pernod Ricard. (Parkiet, p. 6) J.J.