“Decision 97 of Orange Romania’s Board of Directors on October 13, 2014: Approval of the Sirius ENO project (…),” reads the document the company sent for publication in the Official Journal, adding that all the items on the agenda had been unanimously approved.
The information that Sirius ENO (European Network Optimization) is about outsourcing of Orange operations to a single service provider for all of Europe in order to cut costs can be found on the website of an Orange trade union, which publishes information about management actions and how the employees are affected.
The project entails outsourcing of network building and maintenance operations in three countries in Eastern Europe, after having been implemented in Belgium, Luxembourg and Spain, with 325 Orange employees in Romania, the Republic of Moldova and Slovakia affected by the move, according to the same source.
The CFE-CGC Orange union organization said the personnel would be transferred from Orange to Ericsson in September 2014-January 2015 and would have their jobs guaranteed for 12 to 24 months, adding the Orange management said the move would enable it to achieve cost savings of 20% to 30% without the quality of service being affected.
ZF reported early in December that Ericsson had won an outsourcing contract from Orange and would take over 150 to 220 employees, citing sources close to the talks.
Orange, on the other hand, has not provided any details about the project, but did confirm that it was in talks over projects with various partners.
(English version by Loredana Fratila-Cristescu)