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European Restructuring Monitor (ERM)
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Light bulb manufacturer Osram is to cut about 64 positions of a total workforce of 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
Eurofound (2015), Osram, Internal restructuring in France, factsheet number 83610, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://apps.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/83610.