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HAPAG-Lloyd landside staff in the UK are accusing the company of reneging on a generous redundancy clause in their employment contracts, as bosses seek to push through an unspecified number of job losses in Britain.
However, a spokesman for the German container shipping giant disputed the workforce’s account, insisting that the wording was not applicable to the current situation, and that the company had a clear legal right to handle dismissals in the way it proposed.
The row comes shortly after Hapag- Lloyd posted an operating loss of €222m (US$302.5m) in the first quarter of 2009.
At the centre of the dust-up is the interpretation of a favourable pay-off package tabled last year, at a time when Hapag-Lloyd was subject to a takeover offer from Neptune Orient Line.
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