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Manufacturing Manufacture For Transport Equipment Manufacture Of Motor Vehicles, Trailers And Semi-Trailers 29 - Manufacture of motor vehicles, trailers and semi-trailers
300 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
29 November 2018
Employment effect (start)
15 January 2019
Foreseen end date
Description
Opel Manufacturing Poland has announced plans to create 300 new positions at its production facility in Tychy in mid-January 2019. The company is going to implement a third shift as the production of a new model of petrol engines will be launched.
Opel belongs to the France-based PSA group. As of December 2018, Opel employs over 3,000 people in Poland and 500 people at its unit in Tychy. In 2018, the company launched a voluntary departure programme in three phases (February, April and October), which affected 660 jobs in total.
Sources
Citation
Eurofound (2018), Opel Manufacturing Poland, Business expansion in Poland, factsheet number 96228, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/96228.
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