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Electricity 35 - Electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply 35 - Electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply 35 - Electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply
237 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
18 May 2020
Employment effect (start)
1 July 2020
Foreseen end date
31 October 2020
Description
The Polish electricity distributor ZE PAK (Zespół Elektrowni Pątnów-Adamów-Konin) has announced that it will implement a collective dismissal programme affecting up to 237 employees at two company’s subsidiaries (up to 111 jobs in PAK KWB Adamów and up to 126 in PAK Górnictwo). The programme will be carried out between 1 July and 31 October 2020. The conditions of the programme will be negotiated with the local trade unions.
ZE PAK has been operating since 1958. The company is the second-largest producer of energy gained from brown coal in Poland. In 2018, the company closed a brown-coal fired power plant in Turek. As of December 2019, ZE PAK employed 4,550 people, including over 1,000 in the mining division.
Eurofound (2020), ZE PAK, Internal restructuring in Poland, factsheet number 100773, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://apps.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/100773.