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On 13 December 2016, the financial service provider HypoVereinsbank announced to cut up to 1,500 jobs in Germany within the next 3 years.
Affected are especially the jobs in the administration, investment banking and the corporate banking departments.
HypoVereinsbank is a subsidiary of the Unicredit group, an Italian banking group. Unicredit will cut in total 14,000 jobs group-wide. The group is struggling since the financial crisis and now wants to restructure with a €13 billion recapitalisation supported by investors.
The management and the works' council already negotiated a social plan and severance agreements. The company wants to reduce the jobs as socially acceptable as possible and wants to avoid direct dismissals. Furthermore, the company wants to extend its partial retirement programme, which was created during the last job cuts and extends to the end of 2019.
Already in 2015, HypoVereinsbank announced to cut 1,200 Jobs in Germany, see (HypoVereinsbank, 2015).
HypoVereinsbank currently employs about 15,000 people in Germany.
Eurofound (2016), HypoVereinsbank, Internal restructuring in Germany, factsheet number 89435, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://dev.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/89435.