Roompot and Landal GreenParks are going to cut jobs because the office organisations are being merged. According to trade union FNV, the reorganization affects almost 300 employees. About a third of them would have to leave the company. In April last year, consumer watchdog ACM approved the acquisition of Landal GreenParks by competitor Roompot. At the time, Roompot stated that it wanted to become the largest in the European market for holiday homes. The merged company has 305 holiday parks in eleven European countries, with more than 30,000 accommodations and camping sites and approximately 5,500 employees. Due to the ‘interweaving of two organisations’, some positions at the offices in Goes, The Hague, Zwolle and Uithoorn have been filled twice, Roompot and Landal GreenParks said in a statement. ́In order to become even more decisive and to be prepared for international growth, a suitable office structure is necessary with a scalable organization, uniform systems, processes and working methods. ́ With the new, future-oriented structure in Goes, The Hague, Zwolle and Uithoorn, new functions will be created, some will change and others will disappear, says the company. ́Most employees are offered the same or another suitable role. ́ The companies do not report exactly how many people will lose their jobs. Roompot and Landal now employ 650 office workers in the Netherlands, both full-time and part-time. After the reorganisation, 520 full-time jobs will remain. How these are filled in depends, among other things, on the number of part-time employees, reports Omroep Zeeland. The news has hit the staff like a bombshell, says Jurry Joosse, chairman of Roompot’s works council, to Omroep Zeeland. ́The staff is in shock. ́ Roompot is a chain of holiday parks in the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, France and Spain. The company, originally from Zeeland, became the property of the American investment company KKR in June 2020. KKR acquired Roompot from PAI Partners, which bought Roompot in 2016 for an amount of 503 million euros from Gilde Buy Out Partners and BNP Paribas Fortis Private Equity. Until the beginning of 2020, Roompot was known as Roompot Vakanties. (Source: Wikipedia). (Photo Shutterstock).
