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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
450 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
17 September 2013
Employment effect (start)
17 September 2013
Foreseen end date
Description
As announced on September 127, 2013, German automotive supplier Continental will cut up to 450 jobs in Babenhausen (Hesse).
Overall, Continental employs 2,300 people in Babenhausen. A supplementary collective agreement safeguards 1,850 of them until the end of 2019. Continental aims to avoid forced redundancies and will cut jobs by natural fluctuation. A spokesperson of the company confirmed that other sites of Continental in Hesse might be affected. Continental employs 175,000 people worldwide.
Sources
17 September 2013: Frankfurter Rundschau (online)
Citation
Eurofound (2013), Continental, Internal restructuring in Germany, factsheet number 75899, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/75899.
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