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Administrative Services Office Administrative, Office Support And Other Business Support Activities Activities Of Call Centres 82.2 - Activities of call centres
200 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
27 September 2011
Employment effect (start)
3 October 2011
Foreseen end date
Description
The mobile phone operator Free has opened a new call-centre in Vitry-sur-Seine and will recruit 200 employees for this new site where the workforce will grow to between 500 and 600 employees. The management announced that 80 of the 200 positions will be reserved for people living in the department of Val-de-Marne. The recruitment process is managed by the company in collaboration with the Employment public service (Pôle Emploi) and the city of Vitry-sur-Seine. On 27 September, a recruitment day was hold in the Jean Vilar theatre in Vitry-sur-Seine.
Eurofound (2011), Free Mobile, Business expansion in France, factsheet number 72444, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/72444.
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