The restructuring events database contains factsheets with data on large-scale restructuring events reported in the principal national media and company websites in each EU Member State. This database was created in 2002.
Manufacturing Manufacture Of Computer, Electrical Electronic And Optical Products Manufacture Of Electrical Equipment 27.51 - Manufacture of electric domestic appliances
New offshoring locations
Serbia
190 - 325 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
1 February 2019
Employment effect (start)
1 February 2019
Foreseen end date
28 February 2019
Description
Gorenje, the Slovenian household appliance manufacturer (producer of refrigerators, kitchen stoves and complete kitchens, washing and drying machines, dish-washing machines and so on), will reduce its workforce by up to 325 workers. According to the official announcement, the company will not renew the employment contracts of 190 temporary workers. However trade union's representatives claim that the official figure does not include 135 workers hired through temporary work agencies, and therefore the total number of laid-off workers would be 325. Shrinking of the workforce is due to the relocation of production of refrigerators to Valjevo (Serbia). The Chinese corporation Hisense recently purchased Gorenje that employs 11,039 workers worldwide, of which 6,643 employees work in Slovenia.
Eurofound (2019), Gorenje, Offshoring/Delocalisation in Slovenia, factsheet number 96627, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/96627.
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