PKE hopes staff will take advantage of early retirement offer

The management of the largest domestic energy group, PKE, proposed to its oldest employees a program of early retirement and financial compensation of roughly zł. 40-50,000. If they take up this offer, then the employment in the concern would drop by about 20%. "We are not overstaffed, but we simply have too little work for them," said PKE president Jan Kurp. Currently, each employee costs the concern zł. 60-70,000 each year. This means that if 500 out of total 6,700 employees would decide to use the program, the company would save roughly zł. 30 million. "We are aware that we would only begin to make real savings after the first year," said Kurp. (Rzeczpospolita, May 2-4, p. B4) M.M.