Swiss employees call on Merck KGaA to be more like Novartis
This article was originally published in Scrip
Executive Summary
The employees at Merck Serono's Geneva headquarters are calling on the management of their German parent company, Merck KGaA, to behave more like their Swiss neighbour Novartis when it comes to restructuring. On the eve of the release of Merck KGaA's first-quarter results and capital markets day, Geneva-based employees were preparing to vote on whether to hold a strike as the company revealed its figures to investors.