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Electricity 35 - Electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply 35 - Electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply 35 - Electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply
650 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
10 May 2013
Employment effect (start)
21 May 2013
Foreseen end date
31 December 2013
Description
State-owned Romanian hydro power producer Hidroelectrica announced the dismissal of 650 employees by the end of 2013. On 21 May the company announced that the first 304 employees had been laid off. Hidroelectrica finds itself in a judicial insolvency process and has approximately 4,800 employees.
Sources
22 May 2013: Ziarul Financiar
Citation
Eurofound (2013), Hidroelectrica, Internal restructuring in Romania, factsheet number 75453, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://apps.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/75453.