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Transportation / Storage Land, Water And Air Transportation Land Transport And Transport Via Pipelines 49.10 - Passenger rail transport, interurban
200 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
4 June 2019
Employment effect (start)
15 December 2019
Foreseen end date
Description
The private Czech provider of passenger rail and bus transport RegioJet wants to create 150 new job vacancies in the Moravian-Silesian Region. This occurs as RegioJet will replace Czech Railways from 15 December 2019 and the company wants to create a fast train line for Bohumín-Brno. Therefore, the company's owner announced that they want to recruit skilled people as steward, team leader, engineer, mechanic or dispatcher and driver. The owner further mentioned that drivers have to be capable of driving the most modern multi-system locomotives in Europe. The recruitment day will take place on 8 June in Ostrava.
Eurofound (2019), RegioJet, Business expansion in Czechia, factsheet number 97886, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/97886.
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