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Manufacturing (29 - 30) Manufacture for transport equipment 29.1 - Manufacture of motor vehicles 29.10 - Manufacture of motor vehicles
313 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
20 April 2012
Employment effect (start)
30 April 2012
Foreseen end date
1 May 2012
Description
On 20 April, Sovab, a subsidiary of car manufacturer Renault, announced to reduce its production from 500 to 422 vehicles on the 16 April. It had already decreased the production by the end of December 2011.
To make face to this decrease, the management cut 313 temporary contracts on a total of 440 by the end of April.
Eurofound (2012), Sovab, Internal restructuring in France, factsheet number 73578, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://apps.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/73578.