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Manufacturing Manufacture For Transport Equipment Manufacture Of Motor Vehicles, Trailers And Semi-Trailers 29.3 - Manufacture of parts and accessories for motor vehicles
236 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
23 October 2019
Employment effect (start)
1 April 2020
Foreseen end date
30 June 2021
Description
The management of automotive supplier Mahle Behr has announced 236 job cuts out of a total of 640 at its Rouffach site. The management has justified its decision by 'a lack of competitiveness' of the site specialised in the manufacture of air conditioning parts. This is the third plan in six years to restore the competitiveness of this site, which employed more than a thousand people in 2013. Former reorganisations announcements were recorded in 2016 (110 job cuts) , in 2013 (159 job cuts) and in 2007 (100 job cuts). The departure plans should take place between the end of the first quarter of 2020 and June 2021. The union fears that forced dismissals will be likely as this is the third departure plan and the possibilities of retirement or voluntary departure are reduced.
Sources
23 October 2019: Dernières Nouvelles d'Alsace (www.dna.fr)
Citation
Eurofound (2019), Mahle Behr, Internal restructuring in France, factsheet number 98917, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/98917.
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