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Manufacturing Manufacture For Transport Equipment Manufacture Of Motor Vehicles, Trailers And Semi-Trailers 29.32 - Manufacture of other parts and accessories for motor vehicles
420 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
18 November 2021
Employment effect (start)
21 March 2022
Foreseen end date
31 December 2022
Description
The management of the Benteler automotive supplier site at Migennes (Yonne) has announced to the works council the closure of the site by the end of 2022. The management has begun four months of negotiations with the unions to draw up a social plan. As 420 employees, including 350 on permanent contracts, will lose their jobs, the employees reacted by blocking the site. The inter-union called on the employees to stop working immediately.
The plant, which manufactures engine parts and chassis, had been in a limbo since June 2021. Benteler had announced that it wanted to sell the site. Several proposals for buyers were being studied. The main one, that of the German group Mutares, was in the end rejected leading to the closure of the site.
Eurofound (2021), Benteler Automotive, Closure in France, factsheet number 106078, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/106078.
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