Betekenis van:
permanency

Voorbeeldzinnen

1. Permanency of the job
2. In this case, the additional permanency costs of the VRS would be EUR 269 million.
3. Likewise, OTE’s stock valuation was also based on the assumption that the permanency and high salary costs of OTE are normally for OTE’s budget to bear.
4. The specific permanency of the employees, i.e. the quasi-civil-servant status, represents an additional wage cost for OTE that its competitors do not have to bear [49].
5. The State’s contribution compensates OTE only for the permanency and high salaries costs that arise from the extra notional years that are given to employees who would have reached the mandatory retirement age from 2005 to 2012.
6. OTE needed therefore to offer at least adequate compensation for the economic benefits that an employee would have continued to enjoy had he stayed under the protection of permanency.
7. Based on the above Hay Group report, another international economics and antitrust consultancy, Charles River Associates International (CRA International), compiled a final report in which it calculated the extra costs incurred by OTE as compared to its private sector competitors, i.e. the cost of permanency and the cost of higher salaries.
8. Taking the alleged additional costs due to both permanency and higher salaries together, the total extra burden imposed on OTE amounts to EUR 462 million, which exceeds the State’s contribution as estimated at the time of the notification (around EUR 315 million).
9. In particular, the reduction of around one third of OTE’s staff through the VRS, together with the consent of OTE employees to abolish permanency for future recruits in exchange for the early retirement package offered by OTE, are key components of the overall restructuring operations of OTE that should guarantee the company’s profitability, efficient operations and further privatisation.
10. The proportional character of the aid in question also depends on ascertaining first that (a) the Greek authorities have adequately quantified the extra costs that the OTE will have to bear because of the permanency and high fixed salaries of the personnel taking advantage of the VRS offer, and (b) that the State’s contribution does not overcompensate OTE.
11. The State’s contribution compensates OTE only for the permanency and high salaries costs that arise from the extra notional years that are given to employees who would have reached the mandatory retirement age from 2005 to 2012. In particular, the Greek State does not intervene to finance the existing pension liabilities of OTE or to cover any sort of pension deficit that should have been assumed by the company.
12. Accordingly, the decision of the Greek authorities to finance the costs of the VRS that result from the permanency costs and the high salaries of OTE is in line with the necessity requirement, for it enables OTE to restructure its operations in a manner similar to that of a private company without having to incur the extra costs that derive from the pre-liberalisation period.
13. In their reply the Greek authorities submitted a number of reports drawn up by independent experts that have been used to (a) calculate and certify the overall cost of the VRS (KPMG has audited OTE’s 2005 financial results and certified the total cost of the VRS), (b) calculate the cost of permanency and the cost of higher salaries for OTE’s employees by using the appropriate benchmark in Greece (CRA International and the Hay Group undertook the relevant studies), and (c) describe the labour regulatory framework in Greece applicable to private undertakings in general and to OTE in particular (study by Mr Levantis, professor of labour law at the University of Athens).
14. The Hay report confirms the assumptions made by the Greek authorities in its earlier submissions, namely that: (a) there is no early retirement scheme in Greece or elsewhere in Europe that is comparable to OTE’s (that is, a VRS that accommodates ‘structural’ costs like those of OTE, such as permanency and fixed high salaries), and (b) the average severance packages in the case of a normal VRS undertaken by a private company are indeed 1,5 times the indemnity provided by law, in particular as regards the age group of 51 years [23].
15. Although, as pointed out in recital 93, the labour rules imposed on OTE are indeed an exception to the ordinary labour law applied to date to any other private company in Greece, and the permanent status and the high salaries guaranteed to OTE employees were not in reality the result of a freely negotiated collective agreement, but rather imposed on the company by the State itself, the Commission notes that at no time since OTE became a listed company did the Greek authorities indicate that OTE’s labour law liabilities did not have to be assumed by the company’s normal budget or that the State would have to compensate OTE for the extra costs of permanency and high salaries imposed by law on it.