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The Norwegian telecom company Telenor which is majority owned by the state, decided at the Board meeting 8th of March to outsource the so called "Feltstyrken". Telenor has approx 12000 employees in Norway, most of them in Telecom Solutions. Feltstyrken consist of 427 people working with repairing and maintenance of Telenor's communication nets in Norway.
The employees will be transferred to a private owned company called Relacom, an entrepeneur company within communication nets, itself a result of a former merger in autumn 2005 between Telavie (Bravida)and Flextronics Network Services. The contract lasts until 2010.
Relacom that has 1900 employees before this outsourcing, states that they need all the 427 employees, but cannot "give promises for the future" as they want a synergy effect in the long run.
The employees and their union - Electricians & IT Workers Union (EL & IT) - are strongly against the outsourcing. They point at the uncertainty as to the future in Relacom and questions as well Telenor assertions of saving money. In addition the union warns against the consequences to the security, preparedness and vulnerability of the telecommunication net in Norway.
The union has also been fighting other outsourcings in Telenor as the company has sold out other parts of the business not belonging to core business during the last years.
Sources
9 March 2006: Dagens Næringsliv
Citation
Eurofound (2006), Telenor Telecom Solutions, Outsourcing in Norway, factsheet number 63435, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/63435.
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