Restructuring events
European Restructuring Monitor (ERM)
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.
Japanese car manufacturer Toyota is to recruit 500 additional employees in Onnaing near Valenciennes (North) by the end of June 2014. The contracts will be made on a temporary basis with duration of more than 6 months. The recruitment will be done from February to May.
Toyota intents to increase the production of a new car model produced at Onnaing. The company will introduce night and weekend shifts.
The ERM reported on job creation at the same Toyota plant in 2011.
Updated, 02-09-2014: Toyota has announced to increase its production of its new car model (Yaris) to reach a production of 225,000 cars per year (+17pc). 50 of the current temporay workers will be hired on permanent employment contract by December 2014.
Eurofound (2014), Toyota, Business expansion in France, factsheet number 76607, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://apps.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/76607.