Lear Corporation

Type
Offshoring/Delocalisation
Country
Italy
Region
Nord-Ovest; Piemonte; Torino
Location of affected unit(s)
Grugliasco
Sector
Manufacturing
(29 - 30) Manufacture for transport equipment
29.3 - Manufacture of motor vehicle parts and accessories
29.32 - Manufacture of other parts and accessories for motor vehicles
New offshoring locations
Turkey
250 jobs
Number of planned job losses
Job loss
Announcement Date
17 February 2020
Employment effect (start)
1 April 2020
Foreseen end date

Description

The Lear Corporation, a manufacturing company producing seats for automobiles, announced redundancies for 250 of the workers currently employed in Grugliasco, in the province of Turin. The plant used to produce seats for the automotive producer Maserati, part of the FCA group but the production of these has been moved to Turkey.

Currently, these workers are employed under a subsidized working-time reduction scheme and are working only a few days a month because of the reduction in Maserati's production volumes.

Workers and trade unions organised a sit-in in front of the seat of Unione Industriali (the local branch of Confindustria) to protest against the decision. 

Sources

Citation

Eurofound (2020), Lear Corporation, Offshoring/Delocalisation in Italy, factsheet number 99799, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://apps.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/99799.