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Hotel / Restaurants Accommodation And Food Service Activities Food And Beverage Service Activities 56.1 - Restaurants and mobile food service activities
250 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
31 March 2014
Employment effect (start)
1 June 2014
Foreseen end date
31 December 2014
Description
McDonald's, under the Maltese group Premier Capital, will create 250 new jobs in Vilnius, Kaunas, Klaipeda and Siauliai in summer 2014.
McDonald's aims to employ people aged between 18-28 years in order to contribute to the reduction of youth unemployment, as well as to improve professional skills of young people that would help them to stay in the labour market in the future.
In 2010, the ERM reported on 150 jobs created by McDonald’s in Lithuania.
Sources
31 March 2014: Verslo zinios
Citation
Eurofound (2014), McDonald‘s, Business expansion in Lithuania, factsheet number 76796, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/76796.
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