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Manufacturing Manufacture Of Wood And Paper Materials Manufacture Of Paper And Paper Products 17.22 - Manufacture of household and sanitary goods and of toilet requisites
70 jobs Number of planned job losses
20 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
20 May 2019
Employment effect (start)
1 September 2019
Foreseen end date
1 March 2021
Description
Ontex Santé France has announced the launch of an employment safeguard plan to cut 70 positions out of a total workforce of 300 employees, between September 2019 and March 2021. The positions will be cut in Ontex plant at Dourges (Pas-de-Calais). This decision is taken following results which have been declining since 2016.
The management points out that the company had an increase in the cost of raw materials of more than 25% and is facing increasingly aggressive competition. However, it also announced that some 20 positions should be created in the technical area: the objective is to move preventive maintenance from 30% to 70% (it is currently essentially curative) to improve production lines. The union has not contested the decision. The net workforce reduction will amount to 50 positions.
The Belgian Ontex group employs 11,000 people and has 17 plants worldwide.
Eurofound (2019), Ontex Santé France, Internal restructuring in France, factsheet number 97770, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/97770.
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