Restructuring events
European Restructuring Monitor (ERM)
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.
The truck manufactuer Scania has concluded co-determination negotiations on moving the production of axles and gearboxes from the company's units in Falun (650 employees) and Sibbhult (550 employees) to Södertälje, close to Stockholm. The company declared in a press release that all the employees will be offered continued employment in Södertälje and that it is working to find replacement industries for the affected communities.'We are acting now in order to maintain our long term competitiveness and to retain jobs in Sweden', said Per Hallberg, Scania's Head of Production and Procurement.
Only 100 of the workers from Falun and Sibbhult have started to work at Scania in Södertälje after the relocation. Scania is therefore eventually employing new people, and as it was announced on 28 April 2007, the company will employ by the end of the year people who have been affected by restructuring at Astra Zeneca.
Eurofound (2006), Scania, Relocation in Sweden, factsheet number 63293, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://dev.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/63293.
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