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Manufacturing Manufacture For Transport Equipment Manufacture Of Other Transport Equipment 30.4 - Manufacture of military fighting vehicles
130 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
22 June 2015
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
Description
British manufacturer of military vehicles, BAE Systems Hägglund, is to cut 150 jobs in Örnsköldsvik, Sweden.
The layoffs are due to two cancelled orders, one from Denmark and one from Canada. The CEO says that the orders were worth SEK 3-4 billion (around EUR 320-420 million). Only white-collar workers will be affected by the restructuring.
The ERM has reported on previous restructuring cases at BAE Systems Hägglund in Örnsköldsvik, in 2012.
Update 2015-11-03: The final number of employees BAE Systems Hägglund will shed is 130. 85 of the workers are to be directly dismissed, while other solutions will be used for the remaining staff.
Sources
28 October 2015: affärsvärlden.se
22 June 2015: Sveriges Radio P4
Citation
Eurofound (2015), BAE Systems Hägglund, Internal restructuring in Sweden, factsheet number 83845, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/83845.
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