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Manufacturing Manufacture For Transport Equipment Manufacture Of Motor Vehicles, Trailers And Semi-Trailers 29.3 - Manufacture of parts and accessories for motor vehicles
450 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
4 March 2020
Employment effect (start)
30 April 2020
Foreseen end date
Description
Sitech Sitztechnik GmbH, a German car seat manufacturer belonging to the Volkswagen Group, announced on 4 March 2020 that it will be closing its plant in Hannover, which will result in the loss of 450 jobs.
According to the company, as negotiations between the management and the German Metalworker’s Union (IG Metall) regarding the plant’s future failed, and with the plant’s inability to be competitive within the last three years, the decision to stop the production became inevitable. The plant located in Hannover is meant to be closed at the end of April 2020.
An agreement regarding a social plan has yet to be reached, however, Sitech emphasised that the job reduction will be as socially acceptable as possible.
Sitech is a German multi-national company with sites in Germany, Poland and China. It has about 5,400 employees worldwide and 1,700 in Germany.
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