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Construction Construction Of Buildings And Infrastructure Engineering Construction Of Buildings 41.20 - Construction of residential and non-residential buildings
60 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
27 December 2016
Employment effect (start)
27 December 2016
Foreseen end date
Description
On 27 December 2016, German civil and industrial engineering specialist Bilfinger announced to cut 60 out of 280 jobs in the administration department at its headquarter in Mannheim. The company wants to implement the job cuts mainly through a voluntary redundancy programme.
The management seeks to stabilise the company, partly through selling business divisions over the past months. Through the sales, the company has become smaller and will therefore need fewer administration staff.
Bilfinger already went through several waves of restructuring in the last years in Germany, see ( Bilfinger, 2015), ( Bilfinger, 2014 ) and ( Bilfinger, 2014 ). Bilfinger currently employs 42,150 staff worldwide.
Sources
27 December 2016: Stimme.de
27 December 2016: SWR.DE
9 May 2016: Handelsblatt (online)
Citation
Eurofound (2016), Bilfinger, Internal restructuring in Germany, factsheet number 89696, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/89696.
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