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Manufacturing Manufacturing Of Machinery And Equipment Manufacture Of Machinery And Equipment N.E.C. 28.11 - Manufacture of engines and turbines, except aircraft, vehicle and cycle engines
394 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
20 May 2013
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
Description
Wind energy group Gamesa will apply for a Redundancy Procedure affecting 394 employees (6% of its entire workforce). Dismissals will affect the plants located in Albacete, Tudela (Navarra) and As Somozas (Galicia). Specifically the plants in Albacete and Tudela will close. In 2012, in the framework of a global restructuring plan, the company applied for another Redundancy Procedure affecting 324 employees (see here). For previous restructuring see Gamesa-2010ES and Gamesa-ES2005.
Sources
20 May 2013: rtve.es
Citation
Eurofound (2013), Gamesa, Internal restructuring in Spain, factsheet number 75504, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/75504.
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