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Construction Construction Of Buildings And Infrastructure Engineering Civil Engineering 42.12 - Construction of railways and underground railways
190 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
18 December 2012
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
Description
Infranord, railway construction and maintenance company, is to let go of 190 employees all over Sweden to adjust its capacity to market demand. Affected are both jobs in production and in administration.
Infranord is fully owned by the Swedish state and has operations in Sweden, Norway and Denmark.
The geographical distribution of the reductions will be announced mid-January 2013. As of December 2012, there is no information about when the reductions will start taking effect or when they will be implemented by.
Sources
18 December 2012: Norra Skåne
18 December 2012: Sveriges Radio
Citation
Eurofound (2012), Infranord, Internal restructuring in Sweden, factsheet number 74708, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/74708.
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