Thursday, September 22, 2016

70 lose their jobs in the Subsea-bankruptcy – E24

Thus lose 70 employees work in the Oddas third largest company, according to the Hardanger Folkeblad.

the Parent company was bankrupt 15. september, according to the newspaper. To date the fate for the employees of the subsidiary in Odda been a matter of speculation.

Managing director at NLI Odda, Ingvald Torblå, tells to the HF that the heavy messages came Wednesday.

It is very sad, but it is tough times in the subsea industry. We have long seen cost-cutting and the phasing of projects, and now we see the consequences of lavkonjunkturene in the oil industry, all the way out to the outer arms, ” says Torblå to the newspaper.

‘t been paid

union leader Christer Handeland tells E24 that it has been a good cooperation with the management, but that the industry is so tough that most of the employees understood where the situation bar to go.

– There was a meeting with the trustee on Wednesday and they told about the further plan, and how employees should respond to it. The employees were told Wednesday.

10. september should the employee actually received the salary, according to Handeland. But the management had introduced the lønnsfrys, and the 70 employees have not yet received the salary.

It is because of the bankruptcy of the parent, ” says Handeland.

Waiting for recovery

“We think it is very sad with the Odda,” says the chairman of the board Bjarte Røyrvik in NLI Subsea.

He says the market has been tough since oljenedturen started in 2014.

We have had permitteringer since the oil crisis began, and have been waiting for that the market would pick up again. When it has taken longer than we had hoped, and we see that customers choose to use their own factories to a greater extent than in the past, there is no longer a market for the factory in Odda, he says to E24.

He says the factory in Odda, which has produced complicated devices for the subsea industry, has had the greatest exposure to the market.

For the factories to NLI in Asker and Sandefjord, efforts are made still with to find a solution, informs the Røyrvik.

21 can lose their jobs in Asker

Managing director at NLI Asker Subsea, Trygve Wamnes, is not excited over the flow of information there.

We have not received any information yet, because it is appointed as a trustee for NLI Subsea, but they have nothing with a resale to make in connection with realising the sale of the Asker Subsea. It seems to me as if all the walking and waiting that also the Asker Subsea will be turned bankrupt, he says to E24.

– So there has not been a trustee on the visit in Asker?

No, currently it has not been a trustee for a visit.

– I am using my time now to find potential buyers, ” says Wamnes.

Earlier in the year la NLI down production in Larvik, norway. The time lost 90 persons job. A number of people have also lost their jobs in other kuttrunder in the company in connection with the oljenedturen.

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