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.
Manufacturing Manufacture Of Computer, Electrical Electronic And Optical Products Manufacture Of Electrical Equipment 27 - Manufacture of electrical equipment
357 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
7 May 2009
Employment effect (start)
1 December 2008
Foreseen end date
30 June 2009
Description
PKC Group Poland, the producer of cable clusters, is to cut 129 jobs by late June 2009, in addition to 228 jobs that were cut in December 2008 and January 2009. Thus, total number of dismissed people will reach 357 workers. In April and May 2009, 29 workers received termination notices. Then, on 7 May 2009, the trade unions present in the company's Starachowice plant received official notice of collective redundancies (100 workers).
Sources
7 May 2009: Wirtualny Nowy Przemysł Webside (www.wnp.pl)
Citation
Eurofound (2009), PKC Group Poland, Internal restructuring in Poland, factsheet number 68878, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/68878.
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