Zesduizend gedwongen ontslagen bij Defensie

THE HAGUE - Defense will take about six thousand people are forced redundancies. In total, over the coming years 12,300 work places disappear in the organization.


Of these, 2,300 jobs have not been fulfilled and four thousand people will leave through attrition.

A good insider source has a message about the NIS confirmed Thursday.





In Defense are now nearly 69,000 people, so converted one in six workers out goes. Minister of Defence Hans Hillen announced in November already there ten thousand jobs at risk and shut out compulsory redundancies.



Four years


He must be a savings of 1 billion implement, spread over four years. Friday will his plans by the government should steer. Then the commanders informed, which in turn other commanders and staff to inform.

Friday is the main line of the cuts known as the interventions in equipment. Employees receive not hear or who have gone or may be transferred. In the summer it becomes clear which barracks and bases to close. Only then more is known about the actual impact on workers.



Tanks deleted


Reportedly will include the tanks, the Cougar Helicopters and a number of my fighters and F-16 fighters are deleted. Also two new patrol ships and a supply ship must go.

The last time was also allowed staff to contribute ideas to save on costs.



Apologies


Minister Hillen provides employees of Defence in advance apologizes for'' the change will be drawn on them''. Hillen said Thursday during a meeting of the SGP in the parliament building.

Hillen said to realize he was the umpteenth reorganization and austerity measures Defence employees'' saddle with a dull sense of misery''.



Discussion


Hillen wanted the figures which the government Friday to decide definitively not confirm. '' I'm not saying that they will differ much, but I'm not saying that they are true.''

The minister expressed the hope that the discussion of the interventions in the Defence is not limited to specific numbers of aircraft and tanks, but a thought to what role the military should play in the future, for example by organizing an increasingly turbulent society.



Uruzgan


A mission like the last few years in the Afghan province of Uruzgan to the considerably leaner organization in time according Hillen still possible, but the question is, according to him, especially if you still want to do.

According to Hillen there must be a whole urgent necessity. He said that the international presence in Afghanistan has improved visibly, but that there is a high price is paid given the number of fallen soldiers.

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