Service-oriented - Die Schweizerische Post
Service-oriented - Die Schweizerische Post
Service-oriented - Die Schweizerische Post
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a new job within the company, support<br />
them by offering opportunities for additional<br />
qualifications, advise them in our<br />
own job centre and assist those who want<br />
to take up self-employment. Between<br />
2002 (when the Swiss <strong>Post</strong> CEC came into<br />
force) and 2006 we negotiated 18 redundancy<br />
schemes with the trade unions for<br />
the Group as a whole. The job centre offers<br />
employees an opportunity to assess<br />
their situation, career advice and seminars<br />
on topics such as marketability, dealing<br />
with change, career planning and applications.<br />
( 24) It attempts to fill vacant positions<br />
with suitable candidates. In 2006, the<br />
nine job centre advisors conducted 99<br />
seminars with 1497 participants and 1362<br />
individual advisory discussions.<br />
In recent years, the necessary restructuring<br />
and reorganization was carried out<br />
while taking the employees’ concerns<br />
fully into account. ismissals for businessrelated<br />
reasons were the exception: there<br />
were 68 such cases in 2006 (2005: 161).<br />
Swiss <strong>Post</strong> vigorously promotes the marketability<br />
of its employees with a monopoly<br />
training scheme (e.g. former uni-<br />
formed postal employees). Vali<strong>Post</strong>e is a<br />
programme developed in cooperation<br />
with the Federal Office for Occupational<br />
Training and Technology and aimed at<br />
improving professional mobility. Building<br />
on their original training and supplemented<br />
with specific further courses, employees<br />
can acquire a Swiss federal proficiency<br />
certificate as a logistics assistant. We<br />
anticipate that 1,300 employees will have<br />
taken part in the Vali<strong>Post</strong>e scheme by<br />
2008.<br />
Occupational health promotion and<br />
absence management<br />
Swiss <strong>Post</strong> engages in active occupational<br />
health promotion. We want to reduce<br />
illness- and accident-related absences,<br />
improve the performance capacity and<br />
well-being of our employees and sensitize<br />
them to the topic of health through special<br />
campaigns. In order to achieve these<br />
goals, Swiss <strong>Post</strong> launched the “Fit” programme<br />
in 2002, which comprises health<br />
promotion and workplace safety. In 2006,<br />
the number of absences due to illness<br />
or accidents declined by 0.5 to 11.5 days<br />
per employee (parent company). The<br />
“Fit” programme also enhances the com-<br />
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“ The decline in<br />
letter volume is<br />
forcing us to<br />
reduce the number<br />
of jobs.”<br />
Thomas Baur<br />
Head of elivery, <strong>Post</strong>Mail,<br />
Berne
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