Shell Offers Well-Paid Office Staff Redundancy, Hundreds of Jobs to Go

According to the DutchNews.nl, Shell cuts operating costs by offering office personnel earning more than €75,000 a voluntary package to leave the company. The company made an offer to staff at Shell’s training and R&D centres in Rijswijk and Amsterdam, as well as at the Shell HQ in The Hague and at NAM, Shell’s natural gas joint venture with ExxonMobil. Because of shortage of skilled staff, the staff at the Pernis petrochemicals plant is not included. The workforce in Shell in the Netherlands is approximately 10,000 and between 15-20% is expected to leave, accepting the offer from the company.

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