Restructuring events
European Restructuring Monitor (ERM)
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Siderit Company, the last Slovak iron ore mine based in Nižná Slaná, is to close due to bankruptcy and dismiss all 600 employees by the end of November 2008. The main reason is the company’s inability to pay off a SKK 200 million debt to the Slovak Gas Company SPP. The bankruptcy took place in spite of more than SKK 100 million state subsidies provided to the mine. People hesitate to accept employment in the coal mines in Nitra region because of hard working conditions and long commuting time.
Eurofound (2008), Siderit, Bankruptcy in Slovakia, factsheet number 67313, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://apps.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/67313.