The lowest common denominator

Time to start redundanciesMostostal Warszawa has already reached an agreement with its trade unions - 410 to 439 people are to leave the company by the end of January 2013. Meanwhile, nearly 1,700 people are to be made redundant from Strabag in 2012. There will also be lay-offs at Budimex. Job cuts are also expected in the companies of the PBG group that have already filed for bankruptcy. At the beginning of June, Polimex-Mostostal terminated its corporate collective labour agreement. Even though the president of the company, Konrad Jaskóła, explained that this is aimed at avoiding mass redundancies, the workforce of the firm is increasingly apprehensive about the fact that there is no way of circumventing job cuts. In his statements to the media, Dariusz Blocher, the president of Budimex, admits that many thousands of people are to be laid off in the construction sector. "Nearly all the companies will be forced to restructure, more often in terms of a reduction in their workforce,"