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Manufacturing Manufacture For Transport Equipment Manufacture Of Motor Vehicles, Trailers And Semi-Trailers 29.31 - Manufacture of electrical and electronic equipment for motor vehicles
New offshoring locations
Romania
600 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
11 August 2017
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
30 September 2017
Description
Japanese-owned Yazaki Wiring Technologies, which produces bunched cables for the automotive industry, is reported to be cutting jobs in its plant in Michalovce, Slovakia. According to available information, about 600 workers will be made redundant by September 2017. However, there are concerns that the restructuring may affect around 1,000 jobs at the factory. The redundancies are attributed to step-by-step offshoring of the company's production in Slovakia to Romania, where the group employs more than 4,500 people in three factories in Craiova, Arad and Plojest. In March 2017, the factory in Michalovce had 2,600 employees compared to the current 2,550 staff, suggesting that the reduction in staff has been underway for some time. Due to a lower amount of orders, the company's revenues fell by around 25% down to €85.8 million between 2015 and 2016.
Sources
11 August 2017: Hospodárske noviny
2 August 2017: Vzdor.org
Citation
Eurofound (2017), Yazaki Wiring Technologies, Offshoring/Delocalisation in Slovakia, factsheet number 91788, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/91788.
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