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.
Manufacturing Manufacture of rubber, plastic and non-metallic minerals Manufacture of rubber and plastic products 22 - Manufacture of rubber and plastic products
220 - 230 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
15 May 2023
Employment effect (start)
1 June 2023
Foreseen end date
23 April 2025
Description
The management of the Hutchinson plant at Châlette-sur-Loing (Loiret), which is specialised in rubber and plastic products, has announced that between 160 and 170 jobs will be cut by the end of the year. The plant manufactures rubber parts for the automotive and aerospace industries.
Employee representatives were told at a Social and economic committee meeting in early May that management was planning to downsize the 'fitting' workshop, which produces hoses for cars. Since then, discussions have been underway between management and the unions with a view to reaching an agreement on a voluntary departure plan.
As a reminder, in 2020 the company announced that it would be cutting 1,000 jobs in France (FR-Hutchinson-2020), which had already resulted in the loss of 113 of the 195 jobs announced for this site.
Update [28/04/2025]
A further sixty jobs will be lost in the upcoming months as part of the 2023 voluntary redundancy plan launched in 2023. Indeed, two workshops on the site are being closed. According to a trade unionist, this resulted in a total of 350 job losses over five years. In 2024 alone, 123 jobs were cut. The cuts are being made either through redeployment or natural attrition through early retirement. The mayor of Chalette-sur-Loing criticised the company's strategy which is moving production to Morocco and Tunisia.
Eurofound (2023), Hutchinson, Internal restructuring in France, factsheet number 109140, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://dev.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/109140.
Digitisation and automation technologies, including artificial intelligence (AI), can affect working conditions in a variety of ways and their use in the workplace raises a host of new ethical concerns.
The retail banking sector is fertile ground for studying the impacts of digitalisation on work and employment. Financial services are increasingly provided online, without the intermediary of customer-facing institutions.
European labour markets have recovered strongly from COVID-19. By the end of 2021, little more than 18 months after the start of the pandemic, employment rates in the EU were almost at pre-crisis levels.
