Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2000-02-18-Speech-5-037"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2000-02-18"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:European postal services2
dcterms:Language	"nl"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20000218.3.5-037"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2000-02-18-Speech-5-0382
lpv:speaker	lp:Ward Beysen2
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; Vlaamse liberalen en democraten (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; ELDR (1999-07-20--2003-02-10)3 vice-chair; Committee on Legal Affairs and the Internal Market (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Malta Joint Parliamentary Committee (1999-09-29--2002-01-14)3 substitute; Committee on Industry, External Trade, Research and Energy (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, the planned liberalisation of the traditional national postal services raises the inevitable question as to what the postal services will consider their core business to be in the future. In other words, what will the postal services be prepared to do themselves, what will they want to do together in international cooperation and what will they no longer provide? This question should be answered in light of the fact that the age-old monopoly has been undermined by all kinds of courier companies and by technological developments, such as fax and e-mail. But then again, the central theme of the liberalisation of the postal services is employment. Past experiences have sufficiently shown that early retirement schemes and voluntary redundancy schemes often have an undesired effect. I would remind you of the fact that the Belgian telephone company had to recall employees who had been sent into retirement in order to prevent too much know-how and expertise from disappearing from the company. Once again, the point of discussion in the liberalisation of the postal services will no doubt be a reduction in the workforce. One should, however, be very aware of the fact that if people are encouraged to apply for voluntary redundancy, the company will primarily lose those people who already work under pressure or who can easily find employment elsewhere, in other words, they are often the people which the company in question needs. In my opinion, it would be a sign of well-thought-out human resource management if the Commission were to share a number of these concerns, so as to ensure that a sensitive sector such as the postal service is liberalised with minimum impact on social conditions."@en1

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