Nestlé has proposed to its employees the reduction of their working hours by 25% and in exchange Nestlé will hire in their children. Unions have reacted to the proposal as an attack on workers’ rights and added that the company has already lost most of its older employees through early retirement schemes with the effect that their workers’ children are mainly underage.
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