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 For Transport Equipment Manufacture Of Motor Vehicles, Trailers And Semi-Trailers 29.32 - Manufacture of other parts and accessories for motor vehicles
515 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
5 July 2019
Employment effect (start)
1 September 2019
Foreseen end date
1 January 2025
Description
The German automotive supplier Bosch has announced the launch of a voluntary departures plan to cut 515 jobs by 2025 in its plant at Onet-le-Château (Aveyron). The plant's workforce will decrease to 824. The site's difficulties are linked to the drop in diesel sales in this company, which manufactures injectors for diesel engines.
The trade union SUD stresses that if no agreement had been signed, '700 to 800 jobs would have been cut right now.' For its part, the trade union CGT does another calculation and talks about nearly 700 fewer jobs; 515 related to over-staffing and around 200 related to the age pyramid and natural departures in the company. This initial plan does not take into account the possible diversification of the site, which is still being studied by the industrial working group.
Update 5/03/2021: An agreement has been reached and Bosch has announced a reorganisation with 750 job cuts out of a total of 1,350, between now and 2025.
Eurofound (2019), Robert Bosch France, Internal restructuring in France, factsheet number 98092, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/98092.
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