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(10 - 33) Manufacturing 12 - Manufacture of tobacco products 12 - Manufacture of tobacco products 12 - Manufacture of tobacco products
220 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
29 October 2024
Employment effect (start)
29 October 2024
Foreseen end date
31 July 2025
Description
Philip Morris International (PMI), a multinational tobacco company, is closing its cigarette factory in Dresden (Saxony), resulting in the loss of around 220 jobs. The measure primarily affects production workers who have been manufacturing fine-cut tobacco for the European market.
The closure is being justified by the declining demand for tobacco products in Europe. Tobacco production in Dresden will end at the end of July 2025.
Socially acceptable solutions are planned, such as severance payments, early retirement schemes and the establishment of a transfer company (approx. 40 employees) to offer further training and job application support. A job exchange has already been organised, and some employees are transferring to other PMI locations or local companies.
The NGG trade union and the works council criticised the site closure but negotiated a social plan that both sides consider ‘very good’. Despite protests, the closure could not be prevented.
PMI is headquartered in Switzerland and employs around 79,000 people worldwide.
Eurofound (2024), Philip Morris, Closure in Germany, factsheet number 203108, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://dev.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/203108.
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