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Health / Social Work Human Health Services And Activities Human Health Activities 86.1 - Hospital activities
400 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
30 January 2018
Employment effect (start)
28 February 2018
Foreseen end date
31 August 2018
Description
The German private clinic group Paracelsus will cut 400 jobs due to internal restructuring as part of its insolvency proceedings. The main job reductions will fall in Osnabruck (Nordrhein-Westphalen). A clinic in Karlsruhe with 190 employees will close entirely. The restructuring plan aims to effect cost reductions by the end of February. Paracelsus hopes that come summer its clinics will again be economically viable.
Negotiations regarding a social plan have yet to be announced.
Paracelsus has 5,200 employees in Germany, working across 40 medical facilities, including hospitals and rehabilitation clinics, most of which are located in Lower Saxony.
Sources
30 January 2018: Handelsblatt (online)
30 January 2018: Hamburger Abendblatt (online)
Citation
Eurofound (2018), Paracelsus, Closure in Germany, factsheet number 93168, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/93168.
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