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Manufacturing Manufacturing Of Machinery And Equipment Manufacture Of Machinery And Equipment N.E.C. 28.11 - Manufacture of engines and turbines, except aircraft, vehicle and cycle engines
100 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
9 December 2014
Employment effect (start)
1 January 2015
Foreseen end date
31 December 2016
Description
German automotive supplier Progress-Werk Oberkirch (PWO) is to cut around 100 jobs in Oberkirch by the end of 2016.
An existing agreement which excludes operational dismissals until the end of 2014 will not be extended. PWO provides €4 million to implement the job reduction in a socially acceptable manner. The company plans to save costs of €4 million per year.
The management intends to strengthen profitability of its plant in Oberkirch since the company’s customers are increasingly transferring parts of their vehicle production to other countries. Moreover, the company expects turnover to be much lower than predicted.
PWO employs around 3,000 people in total, 1,600 of them in Oberkirch.
Sources
9 December 2014: PWO Press Release
10 December 2014: Badische Zeitung Online
Citation
Eurofound (2014), Progress-Werk Oberkirch (PWO), Internal restructuring in Germany, factsheet number 77991, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/77991.
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