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Manufacturing Manufacture For Transport Equipment Manufacture Of Other Transport Equipment 30.91 - Manufacture of motorcycles
New offshoring locations
Austria
212 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
21 May 2013
Employment effect (start)
1 June 2013
Foreseen end date
Description
Husqvarna, a global manufacturer of motorcycles, is to delocalise the production of motorcycles from its plant of Cassinetta di Biandronno (in the province of Varese) to a plant located in Austria. Around 212 workers (out of 240) employed in the production units of the Cassinetta di Biandronno plant will lose their job.
The company has announced the recourse to Wage Guarantee Fund (WGF) schemes in order to reduce the negative social and economic effects of job losses. The trade unions reacted to the company’s decision by requesting the involvement of local and national authorities in order to find alternative solutions to the delocalisation process.
In early 2013, Pierer Industrie, owner of Ktm, took over Husqvarna motorcycles’ production from BMW.
Sources
21 May 2013: Il Fatto Quotidiano
21 May 2013: Il corriere della sera
Citation
Eurofound (2013), Husqvarna, Offshoring/Delocalisation in Italy, factsheet number 75399, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/75399.
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