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Manufacturing Manufacture For Transport Equipment Manufacture Of Motor Vehicles, Trailers And Semi-Trailers 29.10 - Manufacture of motor vehicles
370 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
5 October 2018
Employment effect (start)
5 October 2018
Foreseen end date
Description
Opel Manufacturing Poland has announced that it will launch the third phase of its voluntary departure programme in 2018. As a result, 170 positions are expected to be cut in the factory in Gliwice. Redundant workers will receive severance pay according to their seniority.
The first two phases of the programme were implemented respectively in February and April 2018, resulting in the redundancies of 465 workers. Additionally, by the end of 2018, around 200 employees will be relocated from the Gliwice factory to the plant in Tychy, where the production of engines has been launched. As of February 2018, the Gliwice factory has been working on a two instead of a three-shift basis, with a few hundred employees temporarily assigned to work abroad.
Opel belongs to France-based PSA group. As of October 2018, Opel employs over 3,000 people in Poland.
Sources
Citation
Eurofound (2018), Opel Manufacturing Poland, Relocation in Poland, factsheet number 95619, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/95619.
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