12/22/10::Workers Independent News
By Doug Cunningham
Yet it fired 1700 workers by conference call earlier this month.
A company press release in October reported the profits. Sanofi-Aventis Public Affairs Director Jack Cox would not let WIN record his comments for broadcast.
But he said in a phone interview that a conference call was “not the ideal way” to fire the workers.
One of the fired workers told the Huffington Post that getting fired by conference call was brutal and inhumane.
Fourteen hundred of the workers were in sales. Cox said the 1400 sales workers were fired because drugs made by the company are coming “off-patent” as generics come onto the market and the sales force no longer had as many products to sell.
But the October company press release said “The group’s growth platforms offset the impact of generic competition on sales for the period.”
Cox said the reality is that it sucks to lose your job no matter how you’re told. He said the company chose a conference call so the firings wouldn’t be drawn out.
He also said it was a conscious decision to do it by conference call in part because the company “didn’t have the infrastructure of managers” to handle the firings in person because of an earlier company restructuring.
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By Doug Cunningham
Giant drug maker Sanofi-Aventis made more than $23.4 billion in gross profits in the first nine months of the year.
Yet it fired 1700 workers by conference call earlier this month.
A company press release in October reported the profits. Sanofi-Aventis Public Affairs Director Jack Cox would not let WIN record his comments for broadcast.
But he said in a phone interview that a conference call was “not the ideal way” to fire the workers.
One of the fired workers told the Huffington Post that getting fired by conference call was brutal and inhumane.
Fourteen hundred of the workers were in sales. Cox said the 1400 sales workers were fired because drugs made by the company are coming “off-patent” as generics come onto the market and the sales force no longer had as many products to sell.
But the October company press release said “The group’s growth platforms offset the impact of generic competition on sales for the period.”
Cox said the reality is that it sucks to lose your job no matter how you’re told. He said the company chose a conference call so the firings wouldn’t be drawn out.
He also said it was a conscious decision to do it by conference call in part because the company “didn’t have the infrastructure of managers” to handle the firings in person because of an earlier company restructuring.
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