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 Chemicals And Pharamceuticals Manufacture Of Basic Pharmaceutical Products And Pharmaceutical Preparations 21 - Manufacture of basic pharmaceutical products and pharmaceutical preparations
87 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
1 February 2011
Employment effect (start)
1 February 2011
Foreseen end date
31 December 2012
Description
The French pharmaceutical group Sanofi Aventis has announced, during a works council, the intention to cut 87 jobs at the plant in Diegem as a part of a major restructuring operation affecting also other plants outside Belgium (i.e. Luxembourg). The job losses are blamed on the need to rationalise operations. Closer collaboration between the Dutch and the Belgium branch has led to a duplication of activities making some positions redundant.
The headcount reductions are higher than expected by the trade unions. The procedure of collective redundancy ('Renault' procedure) has already been launched. On 22 February, the French group will hold an extraordinary European works council. It is the second large internal restructuring after the 'Renault' procedure launched in 2010.
Sources
1 February 2011: L'Echo
Citation
Eurofound (2011), Sanofi Belgium, Internal restructuring in Belgium, factsheet number 71557, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/71557.
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