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Manufacturing Manufacture For Transport Equipment Manufacture Of Motor Vehicles, Trailers And Semi-Trailers 29.10 - Manufacture of motor vehicles
190 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
16 July 2019
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
31 December 2019
Description
French automobile manufacturer PSA Group (formed by Peugeot, Citroën and Opel) announced a labour force adjustment plan at the Figueruelas plant (Zaragoza). The company plans to dismiss 190 employees through an early retirement scheme. This process will be implemented until 31 December 2019, affecting employees born in the last six months of 1958. At the beginning of 2018, the plant already underwent a reduction of the workforce by around 1,101 employees through early retirements.
The company presented losses for €239.5 million in 2018. However, the restructuring implementation precedes the assembly of the sixth series of Corsa and its electric version in 2020, for which the company announced an investment of €250 million in March 2019. In the current negotiations, the union Stopel has shown its opposition to the measure, while the union CCOO opposes to the terms of the current proposal.
Eurofound (2019), PSA, Internal restructuring in Spain, factsheet number 98205, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/98205.
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