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Manufacturing Manufacture Of Food And Beverage Manufacture Of Food Products 10.12 - Processing and preserving of poultry meat
394 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
15 August 2019
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
1 October 2019
Description
Poultry processing company Podtatranska hydina announced the closure of its site in Kezmarok with the collective dismissal of 394 employees, according to sources from the local office of the public employment service. According to reports, collective dismissals shall be completed by 1 October 2019. There is no information yet about the causes of the redundancies, but a collective dismissal is planned in another poultry company Hydina Slovensko in Lieskove near Zvolen during the same timeframe.
The company was established in 1978 and operates as a shareholder company since 1992.
Eurofound (2019), Podtatranska hydina, Closure in Slovakia, factsheet number 98432, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/98432.
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