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Manufacturing Manufacture For Transport Equipment Manufacture Of Motor Vehicles, Trailers And Semi-Trailers 29.1 - Manufacture of motor vehicles
686 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
6 October 2014
Employment effect (start)
20 October 2014
Foreseen end date
1 January 2015
Description
Nissan will hire 686 new workers at its plant in Barcelona. New workers will work in a new working shift for the weekends (600 employees) and also in a night working shift (86 employees). The job expansion is due to the increased demand for two models manufactured in the plant of Barcelona.
Contracting will be launched in mid-October 2014 for the new weekend shift that will start in January 2015. The night shift will be launched on 20 October 2014.
Sources
7 October 2014: ABC
6 October 2014: Cinco Días
Citation
Eurofound (2014), Nissan, Business expansion in Spain, factsheet number 77672, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/77672.
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