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Retail Wholesale Trade, Except Of Motor Vehicles And Motorcycles Wholesale On A Fee Or Contract Basis 46.19 - Agents involved in the sale of a variety of goods
130 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
26 February 2015
Employment effect (start)
17 May 2015
Foreseen end date
6 March 2015
Description
eBay enterprise is going to open a new logistic centre in Halle in June 2015 and has already started recruiting 130 new employees who shall be hired by the middle of May. The wages shall be significantly higher than the German minimum wage of €8,50 per hour.
The company is looking for employees who have completed a vocational training in warehouse logistics. Moreover, eBbay Enterprise is looking for skilled IT staff. The plant's first costumer will be the onlineshop brands4friends which also belongs to the eBay group.
eBay enterprise is a subsidiary of the online auction platform eBbay. The company focuses on developing, creating and administrating online shopping and employs around 5,000 people worldwide.
Sources
26 February 2015: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung (online)
26 February 2015: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung (online)
26 February 2015: Halle Spektrum
Citation
Eurofound (2015), eBay Enterprise, Business expansion in Germany, factsheet number 78749, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/78749.
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