The restructuring events database contains factsheets with data on large-scale restructuring events reported in the principal national media and company websites in each EU Member State. This database was created in 2002.
Manufacturing Repair And Installation Of Machinery And Equipment Repair And Installation Of Machinery And Equipment 33.16 - Repair and maintenance of aircraft and spacecraft
European Globalisation Fund (EGF)
Year: 2015, Case number: 6
107 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
18 October 2013
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
Description
Aircraft maintenance and repair firm PWA Interational is reported to have laid off 107 workers in recent weeks at its Dublin facility. The company initiated a 30-day consultation process with trade union SIPTU on the future of the plant. PWA is a subsidiary of Pratt and Whitney. The case was subsequently the basis of a European Globalisation Fund intervention.
Sources
15 November 2013: The Irish Independent
13 October 2013: RTE
Citation
Eurofound (2013), PWA International, Internal restructuring in Ireland, factsheet number 93421, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/93421.
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