The restructuring events database contains factsheets with data on large-scale restructuring events reported in the principal national media and company websites in each EU Member State. This database was created in 2002.
Manufacturing Manufacture Of Computer, Electrical Electronic And Optical Products Manufacture Of Electrical Equipment 27.51 - Manufacture of electric domestic appliances
European Globalisation Fund (EGF)
Year: 2014, Case number: 10
New offshoring locations
Poland
468 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
12 July 2013
Employment effect (start)
1 February 2014
Foreseen end date
Description
Whirlpool, American multinational manufacturer of home appliances, is to cut 468 jobs in Italy. At the end of June the company announced a reorganisational plan that envisages the closure of its plant located at Trento (468 employees), delocalising the refrigerators’ production to its plants located at Cassinetta di Biandronno (in the province of Varese) and at Wroclaw (Poland).
On 12th July, Whirlpool, the trade unions and the Autonomous Province of Trento have reached an agreement concerning the closure of the plant of Trento. The agreement envisages the recourse to “social shock absorber” measures (before the “mobility procedures” the workers will benefit of a extraordinary Wage Guarantee Fund scheme starting from February 2014) and financial resources for retraining courses for redundant workers. Moreover the agreement provides for the involvement of Whirlpool, the Autonomous Province of Trento and the trade unions with the aim of favouring new industrial plans for the Trento site.
Eurofound (2013), Whirlpool, Offshoring/Delocalisation in Italy, factsheet number 75637, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/75637.
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