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European Restructuring Monitor (ERM)
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On 1st October 2008 it became known that SAS had changed catering supplier for the next 5 years from LSG Sky Chefs to Gate Gourmet. This has large consequences for the Lufthansa-owned company LSG Sky Chefs in Denmark, Sweden and Norway as SAS was the main customer. On 3rd February 2009 the web site of the Norwegian union Parat indicated that the first dismissal notices had been issued in Norway. On 16th February the chief shop steward told the web site that around 85-90 % - 170-180 employees - would have to leave by the 1st of May when the contract period with SAS ended as SAS made up 85-90% of turnover.
It is expected that a large share of the redundant employees will get employment with Gate Gourmet, but the union is not satisfied with the company's proposed employment agreement as Gate Gourmet will not accept transfer of seniority from LSG Sky Chefs.
Eurofound (2009), LSG Sky Chefs Norge, Outsourcing in Norway, factsheet number 68188, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://apps.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/68188.