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Manufacturing Manufacture Of Chemicals And Pharamceuticals Manufacture Of Basic Pharmaceutical Products And Pharmaceutical Preparations 21.2 - Manufacture of pharmaceutical preparations
900 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
30 September 2016
Employment effect (start)
30 September 2016
Foreseen end date
31 December 2022
Description
On 30 September 2016, Pharmaceutical Company Boehringer Ingelheim announced plans to cut up to 9, 000 jobs in Germany by 2021/2022. Mainly affected will be the company's headquarter at Ingelheim as well as its sites in Dortmund and Biberach. According to the spokesperson of Boehringer Ingelheim, the company wants to relocate the production of pharmaceutical products, which are easier to produce in other countries, in order to save costs.
According to sources, job cuts will be implemented as socially acceptable as possible and direct dismissals will be avoided. The company plans to reduce their staff through termination of temporary contracts as well as temporary agency workers and partial retirement. At the moment, about 20% of staff at the headquarter in Ingelheim are employed with a fixed-term contract.
Boehringer Ingelheim employs 3,800 staff in the pharmaceutical production in Germany and in total 47,500 people worldwide. For the latest restructuring see (Boehringer Ingelheim, 2014).
Sources
30 September 2016: Allgemeine Zeitung
30 September 2016: SWR (Online)
Citation
Eurofound (2016), Boehringer Ingelheim, Internal restructuring in Germany, factsheet number 88763, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/88763.
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