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Manufacturing (29 - 30) Manufacture for transport equipment 30 - Manufacture of other transport equipment 30 - Manufacture of other transport equipment
100 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
23 June 2009
Employment effect (start)
23 June 2009
Foreseen end date
31 December 2009
Description
The producer of trucks Volvo Truck has started to dismiss about 100 people (out of a total workforce of 250) from its factory in Długołęka by Wrocław. The redundancies will last until the end of 2009. The rest of the workers have agreed to work 12 hours per day and, in the case of a fall in orders, to have free days from work.
Sources
23 June 2009: Wirtualny Nowy Przemysł Webside (www.wnp.pl)
Citation
Eurofound (2009), Volvo Trucks, Internal restructuring in Poland, factsheet number 69126, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://apps.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/69126.