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Utilities Electricity, Gas, Steam And Air Conditioning Supply Electricity, Gas, Steam And Air Conditioning Supply 35 - Electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply
600 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
20 July 2009
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
31 December 2010
Description
Enel, the Italy's largest power company, is to create 600 new jobs by the end of 2010. The company will hire Enel will hire young workers (under 29) on apprenticeship contracts who will be employed in the Networks and Infrastructures divisions. An agreement between the company and the main sectoral trade unions has defined all the stages of this new recruitment.
Enel operates in the energy sector, with a wide range of hydroelectric, thermoelectric, nuclear, geothermal, wind-power, photovoltaic and biomass power stations. In Italy Enel has around 40,000 employees; it has 83,700 employees worldwide.
Sources
22 July 2009: Il Sole 24 Ore
Citation
Eurofound (2009), Enel, Business expansion in Italy, factsheet number 69307, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/69307.
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