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Manufacturing Manufacture For Transport Equipment Manufacture Of Motor Vehicles, Trailers And Semi-Trailers 29.3 - Manufacture of parts and accessories for motor vehicles
227 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
25 March 2009
Employment effect (start)
25 March 2009
Foreseen end date
Description
On 25 March 2009, the producer of car parts Grammer started to cut 227 jobs at its sites in the region of Amberg. The company stated that it anticipated a decline in sales of 25% to 30% in the first half of 2009 making job cuts were unavoidable.
184 staff are to be dismissed for operational reasons at Grammer's sites in Kümmersbruck, Immenstetten and Amberg. In addition, 43 workers holding a fixed-term contract are to leave the company's location at Haselmühl. The company negotiated a social plan with the Bavarian branch of the German Metalworkers' Union regulating the dismissals. This plan includes compensation payments as well as the setting up of a transfer agency to further the future career prospects of the affected workers.
Sources
26 March 2009: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
Citation
Eurofound (2009), Grammer, Internal restructuring in Germany, factsheet number 68613, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/68613.
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