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Manufacturing Manufacture For Transport Equipment Manufacture Of Motor Vehicles, Trailers And Semi-Trailers 29.10 - Manufacture of motor vehicles
100 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
1 December 2017
Employment effect (start)
1 December 2017
Foreseen end date
31 December 2017
Description
Due to decreased production demands for 2018, Opel's Szentgotthárd engine production plant is going to cut 100 jobs by the end of 2017. The job cuts will be implemented on a voluntary basis and only affect office and maintenance personnel, not production workers.
The redundancies follow earlier voluntary departures of around 190 employees and the dismissal of temporary agency's staff.
After the acquisition by the French PSA Group from GM, Opel is forced to take streamlining measures across the board, in Szentgotthárd, the German carmaker foresees a production of around 450,000 engines in 2018, opposed to the 600,000-700,000 units of recent years.
Present in Hungary since 1992, Opel employed 1,252 people at Szentgotthárd in November 2017 (not including agency staff).
Sources
20 October 2017: Napi.hu
1 December 2017: Closer.hu
Citation
Eurofound (2017), Opel Szentgotthárd Autóipari, Internal restructuring in Hungary, factsheet number 92748, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/92748.
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