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 Manufacturing Of Machinery And Equipment Manufacture Of Machinery And Equipment N.E.C. 28 - Manufacture of machinery and equipment n.e.c.
New offshoring locations
Slovakia
115 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
17 January 2006
Employment effect (start)
17 January 2006
Foreseen end date
31 December 2006
Description
Schindler, a company specialised in the manufacture of elevators and escalators with its headquarters in Vienna, announced on 17 January 2006 a redundancy plan affecting 115 employees. The workers to be laid off in the course of 2006 are all engaged in the escalators production segment of the firm. This business segment will be relocated to Slovakia. Hans-Peter Schwarz, the management boards chairman, argued that increasing pressure on the costs side would make a relocation of the escalators production to so-called low-wage countries inevitable. A social plan is being worked out by the two sides of industry. The Schindler company currently employs some 770 workers in Austria.
Sources
17 January 2006: Der Standard
Citation
Eurofound (2006), Schindler, Offshoring/Delocalisation in Austria, factsheet number 62813, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/62813.
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