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.
Dutch truck manufacturer DAF has announced that it is seeking 400 new employees at its plants in Eindhoven, Netherlands, and Westerlo, Belgium. This reflects a planned increase in production to 200 trucks per day from 1 September 2015, up from 174 currently. The jobs will initially be temporary.
The job increases follow an expansion of the workforce at the two plants by a total of 400 earlier this year, in response to increases in production to 156 and then 174 trucks per day.
DAF currently has 9,420 employees.
Eurofound (2015), DAF, Business expansion in European Union, factsheet number 83837, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://dev.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/83837.
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