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Education Education Other Education 85.59 - Other education n.e.c.
130 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
18 October 2016
Employment effect (start)
31 December 2016
Foreseen end date
31 January 2017
Description
The Commercial court of Fort-de-France has decided the liquidation of the Adult continuing training association (Association pour la formation professionelle des adultes - AFPA) that is allowed to continue its activities until the 31 December 2016. Then all its 130 employees will be dismissed. The association is confronted with a debt of about €12 million. A new structure called the Professional training institute of Martinique (Institut martiniquais de formation professionnelle) has been created to replace AFPA but it has currently no site and no employees. The new institute has been assigned 2.4 million of public funds and may recruit some of the 130 dismissed employees, but there are no details about the start of its activities yet.
Sources
19 October 2016: France TV 1ere
Citation
Eurofound (2016), Association Formation Professionnelle Adultes, Bankruptcy in France, factsheet number 88952, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/88952.
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