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Manufacturing Manufacture For Transport Equipment Manufacture Of Motor Vehicles, Trailers And Semi-Trailers 29.3 - Manufacture of parts and accessories for motor vehicles
200 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
12 November 2012
Employment effect (start)
12 November 2012
Foreseen end date
Description
As announced on November 12, 2012, German automotive and defence equipment supplier Rheinmetall will cut 200 jobs in Germany. This is reported to be due to low demand. Rheinmetall suffers from decreased government spending on defence and lower orders in the automobile sector.
Up to 60 employees in Kassel (Hesse) will be made redundant until the end of the year, 90 jobs in Kiel (Schleswig-Holstein) will be cut until 2014. The company’s site in Gersthofen (Bavaria) will be closed by the second half of 2012, but Rheinmetall aims to avoid forced redundancies.
Sources
9 November 2012: Rheinmetall
26 October 2012: Hessische Allgemeine (online)
12 November 2012: Handelsblatt
Citation
Eurofound (2012), Rheinmetall, Internal restructuring in Germany, factsheet number 74486, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/74486.
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