The restructuring events database contains factsheets with data on large-scale restructuring events reported in the principal national media and company websites in each EU Member State. This database was created in 2002.
Manufacturing Manufacture For Transport Equipment Manufacture Of Motor Vehicles, Trailers And Semi-Trailers 29.1 - Manufacture of motor vehicles
300 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
20 October 2014
Employment effect (start)
1 January 2015
Foreseen end date
Description
Opel, a producer of motor vehicles, announced plans to create 300 new jobs at its factory in Gliwice. The source reports that the factory plans to establish a three-shift, linked with the planned launch of the new Astra model. The new employees will start working as of the beginning of 2015 despite the fact that the production of the new model will start at the end of 2015. All the new jobs will be created in the production department.
General Motors has been operating in Poland since 1994. The plant in Gliwice was created in 1998; currently it employs 3,000 people.
The ERM reported on previously announced restructuring events in Poland in 2009a and 2008.
Sources
20 October 2014: Puls Biznesu
Citation
Eurofound (2014), Opel, Business expansion in Poland, factsheet number 77891, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/77891.
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