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Manufacturing Repair And Installation Of Machinery And Equipment Repair And Installation Of Machinery And Equipment 33.2 - Installation of industrial machinery and equipment
500 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
12 November 2014
Employment effect (start)
12 November 2014
Foreseen end date
31 March 2015
Description
On 12 November 2014, the German manufacturer of printing machines, Heideldruck, announced a plan to cut between 400 and 500 jobs. There was no information given on the end date of the measure.
The company suffers as a result of digitalization and reduced demand for printing and has already cut 650 jobs this year. The new reduction plans will mainly affect the loss-making core business of manufacturing sheet-fed offset machines.
Management and the works council are negotiating how to implement the restructuring plans. Both parties want to avoid dismissals and wish to generate programmes for leaving on a voluntary basis, by receiving severance payment or by partial retirement.
Heideldruck is a traditional German company which employs around 12,400 people. Prior to the financial crisis of 2008, more than 20,000 people worked at the company.
UPDATE 23/01/2015: As reported by daily newspaper Mannheimer Morgen on 7 January 2015, the job reduction will affect 500 employees in total and shall be implemented by the end of March 2015.
Sources
13 November 2014: Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung
13 November 2014: FAZ
13 November 2014: Stuttgarter Zeitung
7 January 2015: Mannheimer Morgen Online
Citation
Eurofound (2014), Heideldruck, Internal restructuring in Germany, factsheet number 77852, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/77852.
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