The restructuring events database contains factsheets with data on large-scale restructuring events reported in the principal national media and company websites in each EU Member State. This database was created in 2002.
Manufacturing Manfacture for transport equipment Manufacture of motor vehicles, trailers and semi-trailers 29.32 - Manufacture of other parts and accessories for motor vehicles
New offshoring locations
Turkey
250 jobs Number of planned job losses
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.
Eurofound (2020), Lear Corporation, Offshoring/Delocalisation in Italy, factsheet number 99799, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/99799.
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