In august Statoil announced that they are rated to cut 600 full-time on the Norwegian continental shelf. The news fell not on good ground with the staff, who feared for the increased level of risk and reduced operational efficiency. The unions broke cooperated with Statoil’s management.
Now see, however, that you avoid the cutbacks in the workforce offshore, type Sysla.
It is worth to emphasize that it is not decided that the 600 jobs going away. A significant portion will be reduced through attrition since many people go with a pension. Furthermore, some fields go out of production the next few years, at the same time as new positions come to when the new field will be in production.
Fields Gina Krog, Aasta Hansteen and Johan Sverdrup, all in production in the next three years. In total do this that we probably can take out efficiency improvement without the use of severance pay or layoffs, ” says press contact Morten Eek in Statoil, to Sysla.
Not satisfied
It means though is not that the unions are satisfied.
We are fortunate to have new platforms that will come on stream. But this does not change the fact that the new model will reduce the staffing and competence of the individual platform which is already in operation. It is the core of our criticism, says general manager Terje’s in the Box shelf.
at the same time expresses the Psa concern for the internal conflict in Statoil.
“the Psa is concerned about the situation where it is barely large disagreement between the company and arbeidstagersiden about the possible consequences of the new operating model, and will follow this up through further tilsynsaktivitet” it says in the documents Sysla Offshore has gained access to.
Extensive downsizing
In august, it became known that the company planned to cut 250 positions in the central staff, many of many of them in relation to the health, safety, and the environment. This will be the talk of the new job-cuts beyond those that have been previously announced, according to central sources Dagens Næringsliv had spoken with.
The new cuts come only a week after Statoil confirmed that it worked with the cut in the 600 man-years in the group’s sokkelorganisasjon in Norway. The company started this process in the spring.
– If we use the opportunity well now, will one be able to plan too much attrition, it’s going significantly in the future in connection with the employees going out in retirement. Some fields should also be phased out, and it will then be possible to take down anything manning naturally on the way, said the media contact for Statoil’s operating and exploration activities on the Norwegian continental shelf, Morten Eek, to E24 at the end of July.
Streamline
It has previously been known that all Statoil employees have been able to seek severance package in connection with a major round of cutbacks in the workforce in 2016. The company has previously notified cuts of between 1.100 and 1.500 employees in the current year.
In addition, the use of hired labour has been considerably reduced.
Statoil’s major effektiviseringsarbeid started in earnest towards the end of 2013, and was presented by the then Statoil ceo Helge Lund at the capital markets day in London in February 2014. Since the successor Eldar Sætre followed up.
In addition to the reduction in the workforce, trying Statoil to improve the efficiency by, among other things, new technology, and increased control over the projects that uføres of subcontractors.
It has a period been known that it has been the employer market in the oil sector, which has led to downsizing also in a variety of supply companies.
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