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Manufacturing Manufacture For Transport Equipment Manufacture Of Motor Vehicles, Trailers And Semi-Trailers 29.10 - Manufacture of motor vehicles
300 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
30 June 2015
Employment effect (start)
1 July 2015
Foreseen end date
30 September 2015
Description
The car manufacturer PSA Peugeot-Citroën has decided to cut 300 temporary jobs in Sochaux. The job reduction measure will affect mostly its manufacturing units producing the Peugeot 308, 508 and Citroën DS5 models. In September 2014, the car manufacturer cut 300 temporary jobs in the same unit. The site, where 11,200 people are employed, has 1,200 temporary workers. In June, the car manufacturer recruited 300 temporary workers for the unit building the Peugeot 308
Sources
30 June 2015: L'usine Nouvelle
23 April 2015: L'usine Nouvelle
Citation
Eurofound (2015), PSA Peugeot-Citroën, Internal restructuring in France, factsheet number 83871, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/83871.
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