The activities and staff of the distribution center are moved to Zaandam because, according to Albert Heijn, the location in Hoorn no longer meets the future needs of the company. Sustainability plays an important role in this, since the distribution center in Zaandam is already advanced with the necessary measures in the energy transition.
The 180 employees, who are currently working on the Hoorn ’80 business park, were asked to move to Zaandam. And according to Onur Erdem from FNV, the shoe pinches: “The employees should actually squeeze their hands that they can keep their jobs. They have to take them with them and otherwise they have to resign, that is of course not how it works.”
Lives upside down
In a social plan, the FNV wants to make decent agreements about the consequences of moving to Zaandam, such as working hours, travel allowance and a severance payment for employees who do not want to go. “The employer is apparently in the premise that you can turn the lives of employees upside down with a Pennen region,” says Erdem.
The trade union wants to discuss this with the employees, but according to board member Erdem this is being opposed: “Normally you keep a meeting in the canteen. That’s how it is agreed in the CAO, but Albert Heijn does not stick to that. They leave them Employees are literally and figuratively in the cold. “
It also states that the company uses buses on the same day to move staff to Zaandam to get acquainted there. “That is all just too coincidental”, the union administrator fits. “But we don’t let ourselves be sabotaged or intimidated. These hard -working people deserve a good social plan.”