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Transportation / Storage Land, Water And Air Transportation Land Transport And Transport Via Pipelines 49.39 - Other passenger land transport n.e.c.
500 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
17 May 2013
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
1 July 2013
Description
VT-Transman starts to operate 150 bus lines in Budapest with 500 new bus drivers from 1 July 2013. The bus lines are taken over from BKV, the city’s public transport company, where 450 employees are dismissed in parallel to the job creation.
Recruitment company Pannonjobs recruited the bus drivers who are participating on a four to five-week training on Mercedes Citaro IIs before starting to work. Some of them changed voluntarily from BKV to VT-Transman Kft.
Sources
17 May 2013: Privat Bankár
17 May 2013: HR Portal
Citation
Eurofound (2013), VT Transman, Business expansion in Hungary, factsheet number 75410, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/75410.
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