Type
Internal restructuring
Country
Poland
Region
Location of affected unit(s)
Sector
Manufacturing
Manufacture Of Basic Metal And Fabricated Metal Products
Manufacture Of Basic Metals
24 - Manufacture of basic metals

3,000 - 9,000 jobs
Number of planned job losses
Job loss
Announcement Date
10 March 2005
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date

Description

3,000 people out of 28,000 employed in Polish company Mittal Steel are to lose their jobs. Roeland Baan – director of Mittal Steel in Central-Eastern Europe, declared that planned reductions will be carried out through voluntary leaving, and nobody will be forced to leave.

On September 2005 it was announced that the company will dismiss 9,000 people.


Sources

  • 4 September 2005: Gazeta Wyborcza
  • 10 March 2005: Rzeczpospolita
  • 3 September 2005: Gazeta Wyborcza

Citation

Eurofound (2005), Mittal Steel, Internal restructuring in Poland, factsheet number 61275, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/61275.