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Manufacturing Manufacture Of Chemicals And Pharamceuticals Manufacture Of Chemicals And Chemical Products 20.1 - Manufacture of basic chemicals, fertilisers and nitrogen compounds, plastics and synthetic rubber in primary forms
200 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
4 December 2013
Employment effect (start)
17 December 2013
Foreseen end date
31 December 2013
Description
Chemicals company Allessa is to cut 200 out of 890 workplaces in Frankfurt, Griesheim and Hoechst until the end of 2013.
This is part of a restructuring plan that also comprises the merging and centralisation of IT and accounting services, and that is to save a total of EUR 20 million until 2017.
According to an agreement with worker representatives, a social plan secures the employment of dismissed workers in a transfer agency, to start its operations 1 February 2014. Workers can remain in the transfer agency up to one year, receiving 80pc of their previous net salary.
The company is based in Frankfurt-Fechenheim. It was acquired by International Chemical Investors Group in September 2013.
Sources
17 December 2013: Frankfurter Neue Presse
Citation
Eurofound (2013), Allessa Chemie, Internal restructuring in Germany, factsheet number 76401, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/76401.
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