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Financial Services Financial And Insurance Activities Financial Service Activities, Except Insurance And Pension Funding 64.19 - Other monetary intermediation
140 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
11 February 2016
Employment effect (start)
1 November 2016
Foreseen end date
31 December 2017
Description
The bank LCL Le Crédit Lyonnais has announced to its Central works council to close its administrative site in Bayeux (Calcados) which employs 140 people including 30 on fixed-term contracts. The archives services will be closed at the end of 2016 and other services by the end of 2017. The different services will be taken over by other companies or subsidiaries of the bank LCL. The future of the employees is not settled yet, as the bank will now to have to negotiate an employment safeguard plan.
Sources
14 February 2016: Ouest-France
Citation
Eurofound (2016), LCL, Closure in France, factsheet number 86602, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/86602.
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