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Financial Services Financial And Insurance Activities Financial Service Activities, Except Insurance And Pension Funding 64.92 - Other credit granting
160 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
18 April 2019
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
Description
The Italian company doBank, active in the financial services sector and, more specifically, in the management and recovery of non-performing loans on behalf of banks and industries, announced redundancies for 160 out of its 1,214 employees.
Redundancies will take place through mandatory early retirements and collective dismissals.
The company's decision provoked a rupture in the negotiations with trade unions, which defined doBank's behaviour as not in line with the sector's industrial relations tradition, and announced they will oppose this decision.
Eurofound (2019), doBank, Internal restructuring in Italy, factsheet number 97578, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/97578.
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