Saab Automobile Re-Hires Employees Back In Sweden

Posted on 23. Nov, 2009 by Ryan in 2000-2009

Photo Credit: TTELA / Jerry Lovberg

Trollhattan, Sweden’s TTELA reports that Saab Automobile continues to re-hire their employees that they layed off back in April.

Here is the piece below translated by google.

New times. Elin Karlsson has returned to a company that is no longer in American hands and slowly reach a green twig after the worst slump in its history – in the background is an advertising slogan for the new 9-5: an who says that ” A new era has begun “.

Elin got Saab job back
TROLLHÃ„TTAN Elin Karlsson is one of those who were made redundant from the Saab in April, which now has the job back.
- It feels good to be back with fellow workers again, “she says.

TTELA has been successively written on the redundant at Saab, which regained the job in the recent past, when the car company is increasing production. The facts are that 646 public servants were dismissed in April as a result of the company was serious difficulty, and had gone into receivership. Since then the situation are gradually brightened with new owners and with clearance from the European Investment Bank and the Debt Office on loans.

Elin Karlsson, 29 years from GrÃ¤storp, is one of those who drew the longer straw when Saab started hiring again. In April she was on maternity leave in about a year and had planned to go back to work again. Instead, she was told that she belonged to the large group of employees who had to go from Saab.

- What I learned was that you are not safe even if you worked in one place for ten years, “she says.

She came to Saab in 1999 as 19-year-old straight from high school industrial and textile applications.

- Then it was a slower pace and more coffee breaks, “she says with a smile.

Innumerable rationalizations later, it is another, more streamlined organization, also with new owners. But she describes the atmosphere as good among fellow workers.

- It was nice to come back again, there were four of my group of seven people on the chassis assembly made redundant and then come back.

Many representatives in the media painted Saab logo in very dark colors in the past year is nothing, she gives a lot.

- I do not listen to what they say on the news, we get a different message internally.

One can add that Elin Karlsson’s experience of being unemployed was not long. When she was dismissed, with five months’ pay after the termination she went on to take parental leave. And instead of being unemployed at the beginning of October, she went on maternity leave, and then got a call from Saab to come back again.

- It was nice, now you do not have to worry about income. The only thing was that we had to try to fix nursery school in a short time.

Her partner also work on the Saab, the crash course, and had passed from notice the wave. Now it is, apparently, a more secure future that awaits the family.

- I do not know what I’d done when I had been out of work after maternity leave, I had not had time to start thinking about it when Saab contacted and said they wanted to hire me again.