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Utilities Electricity, Gas, Steam And Air Conditioning Supply Electricity, Gas, Steam And Air Conditioning Supply 35.13 - Distribution of electricity
500 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
18 December 2014
Employment effect (start)
18 December 2014
Foreseen end date
31 December 2017
Description
EWE, the fifth biggest German energy producer, is to cut 500 of the company's 9,000 German workforce by 2017.
As compulsory redundancies are ruled out until 2020 under an existing agreement, the job reduction shall be implemented by not extending temporary contracts and by early retirements.
The management cited the bad market situation of the company’s core business, the production of electricity and gas, as the main reason for the job reductions. EWE’s profit has decreased by 90 pc in the first half of 2014 compared to the previous year.
The works council announced that they will try to save as many jobs as possible. According to the chairman, the company’s weak commercial situation is also due to management mistakes.
Sources
24 December 2014: NWZ online
20 December 2014: FAZ
Citation
Eurofound (2014), EWE, Internal restructuring in Germany, factsheet number 78166, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/78166.
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