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.
Automotive supplier Mahle Behr is to dismiss 162 employees in Rouffach, France. This measure is to include 104 factory workers and 27 managerial staff, amongst others.
The job cuts are due to the 162 workers’ refusal to sign an agreement to increase working time and freeze wages over 2 years in order to increase the company’s competitiveness. The agreement has been worked out in July earlier this year.
Job dismissals will be in accordance with the law on “securing employment” adopted in January 2013. Additionally to the legal minimum, dismissed workers are to be compensated with EUR 14,000 plus EUR 600 per year worked (EUR 900 per year worked with firm tenure over 30 years).
Mahle Behr employs about 17,000 staff in total. The company is a subsidiary of Mahle group, employing about 65,000 staff worldwide. In 2007, the company had announced up to 210 job cuts that were also to affect the site in Rouffach.
UPDATE 18-12-2013:
After additional workers have signed the agreement with the company, the total number of dismissals is reduced to 159. All of these are to be dismissed. Furthermore, to compensate for the losses in staff, the company will be recruiting new workers and will propose job positions to the 270 employees of the Mahle Pistons site in Ingersheim (Haut-Rhin). The company had announced in June 2013 to close this site by March 2014.
Eurofound (2013), Mahle Behr, Internal restructuring in France, factsheet number 76110, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://dev.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/76110.
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