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Manufacturing (29 - 30) Manufacture for transport equipment 30 - Manufacture of other transport equipment 30 - Manufacture of other transport equipment
1,500 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
18 January 2008
Employment effect (start)
1 January 2008
Foreseen end date
31 December 2008
Description
SNCF, the French railway company, has announced the continuation of its restructuring programme in SNCF Fret, the freight division of SNCF. The French public railways company SNCF has announced that its budget forecast for 2008 will include 1,500 job losses. On 24 January 2008, there was a national strike in protest of the redundancies.
Sources
19 January 2008: Le Monde
19 January 2008: L'Humanité
21 January 2008: Les Echos
Citation
Eurofound (2008), SNCF Fret, Internal restructuring in France, factsheet number 66217, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://apps.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/66217.