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Manufacturing Manufacture Of Rubber And Plastic Products And Other Non-Metallic Mineral Products Manufacture Of Rubber And Plastic Products 22.23 - Manufacture of builders’ ware of plastic
194 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
8 March 2017
Employment effect (start)
8 March 2017
Foreseen end date
31 December 2018
Description
On 8 March 2017, asset management company Aurelius announced to relocate their subsidy Reuss-Seifert from Germany to Poland. This measure will affect about 194 employees. Almost all parts of the construction supply company will be affected including production, warehousing and the administration. Only about 20 administration and sales jobs will remain at the current site in Germany. Relocation will start shortly and is to be completed by 2018.
Management explained that the relocation had become necessary due to missed investments and criticised the previous owner CRH for their approach (in 2016 Reuss-Seifert was taken over by Aurelius).
The management, the works’ council and the Mining, Chemicals and Energy Industrial Union already negotiated a social plan. The company's subsidiary Hammerl will not be affected and will remain in Germany.
Sources
8 March 2017: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (print)
8 March 2017: Focus (online)
Citation
Eurofound (2017), Reuss-Seifert, Relocation in Germany, factsheet number 90529, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/90529.
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