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.
350 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
5 February 2009
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
Description
On 8 January 2009 FG Wilson, a company manufacturing diesel and gas generator sets, announced that it is to cut 260 jobs at three plants in County Antrim. The company had previously announced the cut of 160 jobs at the three sites in Northern Ireland. The firm, which currently employs 3,000 people, will make 138 cuts at Larne, 77 at Springvale and 45 at Monkstown.
The company attributed the cuts to a reduction in demand and it stated that the redundancies were necessary in order to secure the 'long term interests of the business'. As a response, the company received applications for voluntary redundancy from a total of 350 employees and announced that it will accept the majority of them.
Sources
5 February 2009: BBC News
19 December 2008: BBC News UK
8 January 2009: BBC News
Citation
Eurofound (2009), FG Wilson, Internal restructuring in United Kingdom, factsheet number 67686, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/67686.
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