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Health / Social Work Human Health Services And Activities Human Health Activities 86.10 - Hospital activities
350 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
29 October 2013
Employment effect (start)
29 October 2013
Foreseen end date
30 June 2014
Description
Private hospital company Sana-Klinikum Offenbach is to cut 350 jobs in Offenbach (Hesse) until the end of June 2014. Cuts are mainly to affect service personnel. Medical positions are not to be included in the cuts.
The restructuring is part of a plan to increase cost-efficiency. Parts of the hospital’s service facilities are to be outsourced.
Negotiations with worker representatives have been announced.
Sana Klinikum had just acquired the municipal clinic in Hannover at 1 July this year. The city still holds 10% of its ownership, but has no decision power.
The company employs 2,300 staff in Offenbach. It is a subsidiary of the Sana Kliniken group with 26,083 employees in Germany.
Sources
30 October 2013: Frankfurter Rundschau
29 October 2013: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
29 October 2013: op-online.de
Citation
Eurofound (2013), Sana Klinikum Offenbach, Internal restructuring in Germany, factsheet number 76092, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/76092.
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