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Transportation / Storage Warehousing And Support Activities For Transportation, Postal And Courier Activities Postal And Courier Activities 53 - Postal and courier activities
800 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
21 September 2016
Employment effect (start)
21 September 2016
Foreseen end date
Description
Polish national postal operator Poczta Polska has announced that it will create 800 new jobs. The company is looking for mail carriers, customer service staff, drivers and security guards who will work in units in the northern and western parts of the country (in the following provinces: Pomeranian, West Pomeranian, Lubusz, Great Poland, Lower Silesian and Silesian).
Poczta Polska has revealed that it is going to hire employees made redundant by private postal operator InPost (InPost cut over 1,200 jobs in July 2016).
It's the first time in eight years that Poczta Polska has created new jobs; in the previous period the company introduced several dismissal programmes affecting several thousands of workers.
Sources
21 September 2016: Portal Spożywczy
Citation
Eurofound (2016), Poczta Polska, Business expansion in Poland, factsheet number 88744, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/88744.
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