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Manufacturing Manufacture For Transport Equipment Manufacture Of Motor Vehicles, Trailers And Semi-Trailers 29.3 - Manufacture of parts and accessories for motor vehicles
240 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
8 February 2018
Employment effect (start)
8 February 2018
Foreseen end date
29 February 2020
Description
The German automotive supplier Bosch will be cutting 240 of its 390 jobs at its Bosch-Automotive-Steering-plant in Bremen-Huchting by 2020 due to internal restructuring. According to some sources, production may be relocated to other Bosch plants in Hungary and France — this has yet to be confirmed by Bosch. The company considers the cuts to be inevitable in order to preserve the plant’s long-term competitiveness. Negotiations between company representatives and works council have already started. They will try to avoid operational terminations and will support early-retirement programmes.
Sources
8 February 2018: Handelsblatt (online)
8 February 2018: Weserreport (online)
Citation
Eurofound (2018), Bosch, Internal restructuring in Germany, factsheet number 93262, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/93262.
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