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Manufacturing Manufacture Of Computer, Electrical Electronic And Optical Products Manufacture Of Computer, Electronic And Optical Products 26.30 - Manufacture of communication equipment
100 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
23 September 2016
Employment effect (start)
1 January 2017
Foreseen end date
Description
The management of Alcatel-Lucent Entreprise has announced an Employment safeguard plan to cut about 100 positions in its 4 sites in France – Brest (Finistère), Colombes (Haut-de-Seine), Illkirch (Bas-Rhin) and Sophia Antipolis (Alpes-Maritimes). The company is a former division of the group Alcatel-Lucent. It was sold to a Chinese investment fund in 2014. In 2015, the new owner launched a voluntary departure plan to cut about 130 positions. As stated by the Union CDTF, in June 2016, 142 workers left the company. The new reorganisation plan will lead, according to CFDT, to forced dismissals. Furthermore, the site of Sophia-Antipolis will be closed. The CFDT denounces a lack of investment and strategy.
Sources
28 September 2016: Ouest-France
28 September 2016: FGMM-CFDT (press release)
Citation
Eurofound (2016), Ale International - Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise, Internal restructuring in France, factsheet number 88736, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/88736.
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