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Rüsselsheim / Darmstadt (dpa) - At the car developer Segula in Rüsselsheim there is a dispute over possible severance payments for around 200 employees.

IG Metall accuses the engineering service provider of wanting to shirk obligations resulting from the transfer of operations of his employees from the neighboring car manufacturer Opel.

According to the collective bargaining agreement, employees would have to be offered severance payments under the Opel “Pace” program this year before they are dismissed for operational reasons, the union announced on Wednesday.

Segula refuses to do this in the negotiations that have already started on the reconciliation of interests and the social plan.

A company spokeswoman initially referred to the ongoing negotiations.

If you have been with the company for a longer period, the pace compensation paid to date at Opel has often been in the six-figure range.

The new Opel owner PSA had sold larger parts of the company to the French car service provider Segula, but only a few Opel employees were able to make a voluntary change.

Instead of the announced 2000 jobs, the Segula location in Rüsselsheim initially only grew to around 900 employees.

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Segula recently announced that he wanted to cut around 200 of the current 840 jobs because external orders had not been received.

"And so, after more than a year, this behavior has again raised the voices that Segula is just a liquidation company from Opel," explained Segula works council chief Lars Kotscha.