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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
New offshoring locations
Germany
500 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
22 March 2005
Employment effect (start)
1 January 2006
Foreseen end date
31 December 2006
Description
Volkswagen Poznań will cut 120 jobs, out of 1,000 working in its foundry in Poznań (Wielkopolskie). The company declared facing difficulties concerning further investments in the town, caused by the lack of local zoning plan. It has been announced that next, 500 people might loose their jobs, as Volkswagen is to move part of its Transporter T5 production to Germany. On June 2005 the company confirmed that 500 people will loose their jobs in 2006.
Sources
10 June 2005: Rzeczpospolita
22 March 2005: Gazeta Wyborcza
22 March 2005: Rzeczpospolita
Citation
Eurofound (2005), Volkswagen Poznań, Offshoring/Delocalisation in Poland, factsheet number 61316, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/61316.
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