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The supermarket chain Tesco announced its plans to implement a collective dismissal programme which will cause up to 230 redundancies at the offices in Warsaw and Cracow as well as the closure of 6 hypermarkets across Poland. The programme will affect two occupational categories within the company: up to 84 rank-and-files and up to 146 managerial positions. The conditions of the redundancy programme will be negotiated with the local trade unions; dismissed workers will receive severance pay. The programme will be carried out between 20 August and 31 October 2020.
The programme will not cover 301 shops and 2 distribution centres which are planned to be sold to Salling Group in the fourth quarter of 2020. Tesco revealed that the decision was taken due to economic reasons.
Operating in Poland since 1992, the company has over 300 stores and employs about 10,000 people across the country.
In 2019 and 2020, the company already announced seven other restructuring programmes: January 2019 (1,300 jobs cut), June 2019 (1,480 jobs cut), August 2019 (2,154 jobs cut), September 2019 (2,117 jobs cut) November 2019 (224 jobs cut), February 2020 (380 jobs cut) and June 2020 (200 jobs cut).
Update 01/09/2020
Tesco announced its plans to implement a collective dismissal programme which will cause up to 899 redundancies at units across Poland. The source reports that the cuts will affect up to 837 rank-and-files and up to 62 managerial roles. The programme covers the head office in Warsaw, an e-commerce platform as well as 6 shops across the country (Bielsko-Biała, Gdynia, Łódź, Opole, Ostrów Wielkopolski, Warsaw); the company will close down the e-commerce platform and stores which are no longer profitable. The programme will be carried out between 21 September and 31 December 2020. The programme will not cover 301 shops and 2 distribution centres which are planned to be sold to Salling Group in the fourth quarter of 2020. Tesco revealed that the decision was taken due to economic reasons.
Eurofound (2020), Tesco, Closure in Poland, factsheet number 101539, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://apps.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/101539.