The restructuring events database contains factsheets with data on large-scale restructuring events reported in the principal national media and company websites in each EU Member State. This database was created in 2002.
Mining / Quarrying Mining And Quarrying Mining Of Coal And Lignite 05 - Mining of coal and lignite
250 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
17 July 2006
Employment effect (start)
1 August 2006
Foreseen end date
31 December 2006
Description
More than two hundred employees of the mine Capeni-Baraolt (Covasna county) will be made redundant in the next months. The mine will be closed by the end of the year. The first wave of collective dissmissals is planned for August and affects 30 employees. Currently, the mine Capeni-Baraolt employs 250 people, compared to 3,500 in 1989. The persons dissmissed will benefit from compensatory payments of RON 16,000. Every month the mine is extracting approximatelly 20,000 tons of coal.
Sources
18 July 2006: Economistul
Citation
Eurofound (2006), Societatea Nationala a Carbunelui, Closure in Romania, factsheet number 63789, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/63789.
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