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Hotel / Restaurants Accommodation And Food Service Activities Food And Beverage Service Activities 56.10 - Restaurants and mobile food service activities
1,000 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
12 February 2018
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
31 December 2018
Description
Fast-food chain McDonald’s announced 1,000 new jobs will be created by the end of 2018.
The company has been gradually increasing its presence in the country and currently accounts for about 19,000 employees (see McDonald’sIT-2013).
Vacancies target restaurant crew members that will be employed in new stores in many Italian cities.
The recruitment process is already ongoing for 200 workers to be employed in Milan and 150 in Rome.
Sources
29 January 2018: Affari Italiani
30 January 2018: La Repubblica
12 February 2018: Affari Italiani
Citation
Eurofound (2018), McDonald's, Business expansion in Italy, factsheet number 93378, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/93378.
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