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• Fubon, Jih Sun union agree on employment

  ACQUISITION: Fubon has agreed in principle not to dismiss any Jih Sun Bank employee for three years after a merger, nor change their position or wages

  • By Kao Shih-ching / Staff reporter
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  Fubon Financial Holding Co(富邦金控) yesterday said it has reached an initial consensus with the labor union of Jih Sun International Bank (日盛銀行), promising that it would not dismiss any bank employees in the next three years.

  Fubon Financial acquired the bank’s parent company, Jih Sun Financial Holding Co (日盛金控), earlier this year and it had held talks with the bank’s labor union and Jih Sun Financial’s labor union separately.

  None of the more than 1,000 employees of Jih Sun Bank would be sacked in the next three years after the acquisition, while those who are eligible to retire and apply to do so would receive an additional five months of wages, Fubon Financial said in a statement yesterday.

  

  The Fubon Financial Holding Co building in Taipei is pictured in an undated photograph.

  Photo: Wu Chi-lun, Taipei Times

  Fubon Financial and the bank’s labor union would sign a formal agreement after the proposal is approved by the labor union’s members in a convention next year and approved by Jih Sun Bank’s board of directors, the company said.

  “Fubon Financial had promised us that in principle, it would not adjust the position and salary of each employee of Jih Sun Bank over the next three years,” Jih Sun labor union president Jack Chen (陳建志) told the Taipei Times by telephone.

  The financial conglomerate would send offer letters to each employee 30 days before it integrates Jin Sun bank’s operations into that of Taipei Fubon Commercial Bank (台北富邦銀行), with the letter indicating the employee’s position and wage, Chen said.

  As Jih Sun Bank has 44 branches and Taipei Fubon Commercial Bank has 135 branches, it is likely that Fubon Financial would combine some branches to consolidate services, but he is not worried that employees’ positions would be greatly changed, Chen said.

  Fubon Financial plans to integrate the operations of Jih Sun Financial into that of Fubon Financial before integrating the businesses of the units, he added.

  During the negotiations, the two parties talked about how long Fubon Financial should promise not to dismiss any employee of Jih Sun Bank, and finally agreed on three years, Chen said.

  “The guarantee of three years [of not sacking any employee] would give our colleagues more time to assimilate into the culture of Fubon Financial,” Chen said.

  “It was our goal to obtain better conditions than those offered to employees of Ta Chong Bank (大眾銀行) by Yuanta Commercial Bank (元大銀行) after its acquisition, and I think that we have succeeded,” he said.

  Fubon Financial said that it would continue talking with the labor union of Jih Sun Financial in hopes of reaching an agreement as soon as possible.
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