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Manufacturing Manufacture Of Computer, Electrical Electronic And Optical Products Manufacture Of Electrical Equipment 27.40 - Manufacture of electric lighting equipment
64 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
1 April 2015
Employment effect (start)
1 July 2015
Foreseen end date
31 December 2015
Description
Light bulb manufacturer Osram is to cut about 64 positions of a total workforceof 603 employees at Molsheim site. Most of the cuts will be in production
The reorganisation is in the framework of the global restructuring announced in 2014 that includes to 7,800 job cuts worldwide. Some activities will be delocalised to other countries: the computing service (19 employees) will be transferred to China and a part of the commercial services to an Osram site in Slovakia
The Molsheim site is facing economic difficulties after it was announced that halogen lamps, the main production of the site, will be banned from 2016. The worldwide reorganisation affects also the German site of Augsburg where 439 job cuts are foreseen
Sources
1 April 2015: Les Echos
Citation
Eurofound (2015), Osram, Internal restructuring in France, factsheet number 83610, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/83610.
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