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The management of the Mahle Behr France plant in Hambach (Moselle) has announced intentions to decrease its workforce from 295 to 160 within the next two years. The company specializes in manufacturing automotive air conditioning and heating systems. The management attributes this decision to the challenging economic conditions and high costs. The company's operating profit has been negative since 2017, and no improvement is expected in 2024. To reduce the workforce, management wants to avoid compulsory redundancies, and has proposed three measures to staff representatives: anticipation of professional retraining; introduction of specific measures for employees aged 59 and over; and recourse to voluntary redundancies through the "collective conventional severance" mechanism. Following information meetings, negotiations with the unions will begin in April. Mahle Behr France has already reduced its workforce at another site in Alsace, Rouffach, where three reorganisations have been recorded : 159 job cuts in 2013 Mahle Behr France-2013-FR; between 110 and 180 in 2016 Mahle Behr France-2016-FR and 236 job cuts in 2019 Mahle Behr France-2019-FR
Eurofound (2024), Mahle Behr France, Internal restructuring in France, factsheet number 200874, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://apps.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/200874.