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Wholesale / Retail 47 - Retail trade 47.1 - Non-specialised retail sale 47.1 - Non-specialised retail sale
3,000 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
9 January 2015
Employment effect (start)
1 January 2015
Foreseen end date
31 December 2015
Description
French hypermarket group, Carrefour, has announced that it will create 3,000 open-ended jobs in Spain in 2015. Carrefour is mostly looking at hiring young people who have team work skills and can be promoted within the company structure. Many of these, the company says, will be young people looking for their first job.
The head of human resources of Carrefour has stated that 86% of the workers of Carrefour are hired under an open-ended contract. Carrefour employs over 40,000 workers in Spain in 175 hypermarkets and around 400 supermarkets.
Sources
9 January 2015: Cinco Días
Citation
Eurofound (2015), Carrefour, Business expansion in Spain, factsheet number 78092, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://apps.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/78092.