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Manufacturing Manufacture Of Computer, Electrical Electronic And Optical Products Manufacture Of Electrical Equipment 27 - Manufacture of electrical equipment
250 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
31 August 2007
Employment effect (start)
30 September 2007
Foreseen end date
Description
Electrolux, a multi-national group that produces domestic appliances, is to create 250 new jobs in Porcia. The Electrolux site in Porcia produces washing machines, and employs 2,600. The workers that are to be recruited in Porcia will be employed on fixed-term contracts. Subsequently, an agreement on the recruitment of the workers between Electrolux management and trade unions was necessary as the firm's decision to hire workers on fixed-term contracts potentially breached a provision in the company collective agreement between unions and management.
Electrolux employs 10,000 in Italy and has several plants in the country. The group is the world's largest producer of domestic appliances and in Italy acquired Zanussi and Rex, two traditional Italian household manufacturers.
Sources
31 August 2007: Il Diario del lavoro
Citation
Eurofound (2007), Electrolux, Business expansion in Italy, factsheet number 65762, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/65762.
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