Polish Sugar restructuring means 2,500 redundancies

The management of Polish Sugar (PSC) has prepared a restructuring program w hich will start off with voluntary redundancies, decreasing the employment by 2,500. "These reductions are a step which we cannot avoid," said Władysł aw Łukasik, PSC president. The company offers a salary amounting to a year's wage for any employee who will volunteer to leave by the end of the month. Every following that employees do not take up the offer, it will fall by the value of a month's salary. The project, however, is strongly opposed by the unions, who have worked out their own social package for 6,500 full-time em ployees. They are demanding a five to seven year job guarantee for those who remain in the company. The negotiations between the management and the unio ns will begin today. (Puls Biznesu, p. 8) A.K.