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Manufacturing Manufacture Of Basic Metal And Fabricated Metal Products Manufacture Of Basic Metals 24.52 - Casting of steel
1,000 - 2,000 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
13 February 2009
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
28 February 2009
Description
Approximately 1,000 employees from the Galati subsidiary of the Arcelor Mittal group have been made redundant on a voluntary basis. Another 1,000 employees are waiting the answer from the management regarding their request to leave the company. The programme for voluntary redundancies from 1 January to 31 March 2009 envisages compensatory payments of 2,300-5,800 euro according to the length of service plus 24 months gross wages equivalent to the gross wage in the last month of employment. At present, the Galati site employs 12,500 people.
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