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Hotel / Restaurants Accommodation And Food Service Activities Food And Beverage Service Activities 56.10 - Restaurants and mobile food service activities
250 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
21 March 2022
Employment effect (start)
1 April 2022
Foreseen end date
31 December 2022
Description
McDonald's, an American fast-food restaurant company, will create 250 new jobs in Estonia in 2022. A new restaurant will be opened and additional developments will take place, which create 55 totally new positions in the company while the other 195 are coming from previous existing part-time position which will become permanent. The company has announced that the new jobs will include be in restaurants as well as position at the corporate level. They are also open to hire people with disabilities.
Eurofound (2022), McDonald's, Business expansion in Estonia, factsheet number 106613, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/106613.
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