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Manufacturing (24 - 25) Manufacture of metals 24.5 - Casting of metals 24.51 - Casting of iron
310 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
2 August 2007
Employment effect (start)
1 August 2007
Foreseen end date
31 December 2007
Description
Famur, a group that operates two iron casting plants in Śrem, is to make 310 redundant. 170 redundancies are to be made at a plant where 1,422 are employed, and 140 are to be made at a second plant where 249 are employed. As of August 2nd 2007, 40 employees have been dismissed from the first and larger plant. Local unions expect the redundancy process to continue over a five month period.
Sources
2 August 2007: Wirtualny Nowy Przemysł Website
Citation
Eurofound (2007), Famur, Internal restructuring in Poland, factsheet number 65664, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://apps.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/65664.