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Transportation / Storage 49 - Land transport and transport via pipelines 49 - Land transport and transport via pipelines 49.1 - Passenger rail transport
120 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
10 March 2016
Employment effect (start)
31 March 2016
Foreseen end date
30 June 2016
Description
The CP - Comboios de Portugal is recruiting 120 engineers, reviewers and sales operators, after obtaining authorization from the Government (since 2011 public contracts are frozen in the business sector of the state ).
CP 's president explained that hiring workers was authorised by the Government "at the end of September," after "two and half years of insistence," stressing that it is still too early to know if this staff reinforcement will be sufficient to meet the needs of the company .
Recruitment will first be made within the company and then open to external candidates.
Sources
10 March 2016: Jornal de Notícias
Citation
Eurofound (2016), CP - Comboios de Portugal, Business expansion in Portugal, factsheet number 86861, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://apps.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/86861.
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