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Arts / Entertainment Arts, Entertainment And Culture Gambling And Betting Activities 92 - Gambling and betting activities
418 - 380 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
2 June 2010
Employment effect (start)
2 June 2010
Foreseen end date
31 December 2010
Description
Hit, the largest Slovenian company in gambling business located in Nova Gorica, is to cut between 200 to 250 jobs by the end of the year. These job losses come on top of 130 layoffs already implemented at the beginning of this year. Altogether between 330 to 380 jobs are to be cut. At the end of 2009, the company employed 1,747 employees. It entered into quite severe problems in 2009 and the economic downturn made the situation worse.
UPDATE - 12 August 2010: Instead of the initially announced 200-250 job losses, the company will cut 400 jobs in total by the end of 2010.
UPDATE - 16 September 2010: By mid September already 418 employees lost jobs.
Sources
2 June 2010: Delo
12 August 2010: Delo
16 September 2010: Delo
Citation
Eurofound (2010), Hit, Internal restructuring in Slovenia, factsheet number 70606, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/70606.
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