In his video, Sondag factors out that in recent times Schiphol has in a sure sense forgotten to make and hold the airport engaging for workers. He had been on the airport a bit extra not too long ago to get a way of the dynamics. Over the previous two years, the corona phase-out and the tumultuous build-up after the disaster have taken its toll, he says. “You discover that. There’s a sure fatigue. I will attempt to offer you some vitality by supporting you,” mentioned Sondag, who promised to cope with individuals “extra sustainably”.
“We’ve outsourced actions. Then issues weren’t going effectively,” Sondag summarizes Schiphol’s coverage. “We’re actually going to unravel this.”
The brand new boss, who began on Tuesday, says he focuses not solely on workers employed by Schiphol, but additionally on cleaners and handlers who’re employed by purchasers of Schiphol. “The route I wish to give is that we now have to do it collectively. However at a excessive tempo with an eye fixed and coronary heart for execution. As a result of that is what our prospects and the businesses actually matter on,” it feels like.
Within the meantime, Schiphol has but to begin the recruitment marketing campaign for brand new safety officers, in collaboration with safety corporations. In response to a spokesperson, it is going to begin “within the very quick time period”, however the spokesman can not title a concrete begin date. Attributable to a workers scarcity at safety, amongst different issues, lengthy queues arose within the departure halls of the airport in latest months.
The FNV union sees that there’s urgency on the airport, however “there may be not a day to lose”, in accordance with FNV marketing campaign supervisor Joost van Doesburg. “When you’ve got employed a safety guard, he nonetheless has to undergo a examine, some even need to do a coaching. So if you happen to begin recruiting at the moment, it is going to take some time earlier than a safety guard is at work. Schiphol should subsequently begin shortly with the recruitment.”
Sondag has been appointed at Schiphol for a yr. He himself states that it is a quick time. “But when we do not achieve changing this programs considering in a single yr, we cannot achieve 4. And I assure you, you haven’t any extra time and neither do I. We’re simply going to do it.”
