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Manufacturing Manufacture For Transport Equipment Manufacture Of Motor Vehicles, Trailers And Semi-Trailers 29.1 - Manufacture of motor vehicles
800 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
21 August 2014
Employment effect (start)
25 August 2014
Foreseen end date
Description
Car manufacturer Skoda Auto, a subsidiary of the Volkswagen Group, is to create 800 new jobs at its Mlada Boleslav plant in the coming months due to the launch of a new Fabia model. The company is looking for fitters, welders and people in logistics
Å koda Auto currently employs 19,500 people at its main site in Mlada Boleslav. The company also operates two factories (Kvasiny, VrchlabÃ) with about 4,500 staff.
Sources
21 August 2014: Lidové Noviny
Citation
Eurofound (2014), Å koda Auto, Business expansion in Czechia, factsheet number 77452, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/77452.
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