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Manufacturing Manufacture Of Wood And Paper Materials Manufacture Of Wood And Of Products Of Wood And Cork, Except Furniture; Manufacture Of Articles Of Straw And Plaiting Materials 16.10 - Sawmilling and planing of wood
198 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
31 July 2015
Employment effect (start)
31 July 2015
Foreseen end date
Description
Klausner Holz, an Austrian timber company, will cut 99 jobs in Friesau and 99 jobs in Saalburg-Ebersdorf by the end of July and beginning of August 2015. The job reduction amounts to almost a quarter of the whole workforce.
Employees in Friesau, who find a job before their contract is terminated, will receive 40% of their outstanding wages as a cushion payment. A minimum number of 264 jobs will be maintained at the site. In case the employment falls below this point, former employees enjoy priority in the recruiting process.
The site in Saalburg-Ebersdorf will decrease production as a result of the restructuring. The 99 employees affected by the restructuring will receive severance pay according to social criteria.
Since Spring there were fears that up to 175 jobs in the Thuringian location may be cut. Meanwhile 45 employees already left the site of which some were relocated to a different workplace within the group e.g. in the USA.
Klausner Holz was founded in 1991 at Saalburg-Ebersdorf, the plant in Saxony started its operation in 2004. The company management and sales centre belongs to Klausner Trading international, which is headquartered at Oberndorf, Austria. Recently the company has been suffering from liquidity shortages due to the price development at the lumber market.
Sources
30 July 2015: Ostthüringer Zeitung Online
31 July 2015: Holz Zentralblatt
Citation
Eurofound (2015), Klausner Holz, Internal restructuring in Germany, factsheet number 84756, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/84756.
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