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 Manufacture Of Basic Metal And Fabricated Metal Products Manufacture Of Basic Metals 24.1 - Manufacture of basic iron and steel and of ferro-alloys
1,200 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
16 July 2020
Employment effect (start)
16 July 2020
Foreseen end date
31 December 2020
Description
Combinatul de Oţeluri Speciale (COS) Târgovişte,  Romania's leading steel producers, has announced a restructuring involving 1,200 job losses . The restructuring process is due to the different commercial and economic constraints including declining demand due to COVID-19 and company insolvency.
The Board of Directors will be empowered to prepare a closure/reorganization plan, as well as to negotiate termination of employment contracts, either by agreement of the parties or by dismissal, within the limits of available financial resources.
One representative of Valahia Trade Union commented that there is no date set when the collective layoffs will start. In addition, the Trade Union representative mentioned that the workers do not have a collective agreement, and employers / owners relied on the insolvency law. In August 2020, the Romanian Prime Minister, Mr. Ludovic Orban announced that the Government has solutions which will be analyzed. Â
In February 2013, an application for reorganization was granted for Mechel TargoviÅŸte and the overall insolvency procedure was opened. That was after it was also made public in February 2013 that Mechel (a mining and metals company, comprising producers of coal, iron ore in concentrate, steel, rolled steel products from Russia) sold all its assets in Romania for $70 to a Romanian company.
In December 2019, the court confirmed the plan for the reorganization of Combinatul de Oţeluri Speciale (COS) Târgovişte.
Eurofound (2020), COS Targoviste, Closure in Romania, factsheet number 101651, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/101651.
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