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Transportation / Storage Land, Water And Air Transportation Land Transport And Transport Via Pipelines 49.31 - Urban and suburban passenger land transport
500 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
13 February 2019
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
Description
The public Municipal Transport Company (EMT) of the city of València has announced plans to create 500 new positions for drivers in the coming years. With this initiative, EMT aims to respond to the new challenges in sustainable mobility. An external company will be responsible to run and evaluate the tests for the new employees, which will be held in April 2019. Since June 2015, EMT has offered employment to more than 300 people, mainly drivers, mechanics and administrative staff.
Eurofound (2019), EMT, Business expansion in Spain, factsheet number 97195, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/97195.
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