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Financial Services Financial And Insurance Activities Insurance, Reinsurance And Pension Funding, Except Compulsory Social Security 65.11 - Life insurance
290 - 300 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
3 December 2015
Employment effect (start)
3 December 2015
Foreseen end date
31 December 2018
Description
Nürnberger Versicherung, a German insurance company, will cut around 300 out of 2,700 jobs during the next 3 years. This restructuring forms part of a new company alignment with the company having decided to offer all of its products online. The job reduction will thus affected its office staff, but the company wants to avoid compulsory redundancies.The new restructuring scheme follows the announcement of 170 job cuts due to changes in the company's life insurance business in March 2015 (Nürnberger Versicherung 2015).
Nürnberger Versicherung was founded in 1884 and is based in Nuremberg. Currently around 23,000 employees are working for the company of which 4,000 at its headquarters in Nuremberg.
Sources
3 December 2015: BR online
4 December 2015: Mittelbayerische Zeitung Online
Citation
Eurofound (2015), Nürnberger Versicherung, Internal restructuring in Germany, factsheet number 86014, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/86014.
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