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Weight Watchers offers diet programs.
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Weight Watchers Switzerland fires 110 employees. That is two thirds of all employees in Switzerland. The employees were zoomed in on the bad news.
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The globally active company that markets diet methods for weight loss primarily affects so-called coaches and guides who advise those who want to lose weight on site. Weight Watchers now apparently plans to focus more on online advice in the future.
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Local already canceled
The Unia union, which has been mandated by the Weight Watchers Personnel Commission and staff, wrote in a statement that the US company is planning a radical restructuring.
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Weight Watchers still refuses to inform employees of the actual plans. For example, it has not yet been communicated internally which locations will be closed. Although, according to the union, leases for restaurants have already been canceled.
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Extension of the consultation process
Unia demands that the consultation process, in which those affected can make suggestions on how to avoid redundancies, be extended. “Because of the corona virus, the workers have not been able to meet physically since the start of the consultation process. Weight Watchers takes advantage of this situation, »it says in the message.
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Now the government of the canton of Vaud must also work for the layoffs.
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