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Manufacturing (32) Other manufacturing 32 - Other manufacturing 32 - Other manufacturing
240 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
3 April 2009
Employment effect (start)
1 May 2009
Foreseen end date
31 December 2009
Description
Danish medical instrument producer Unomedical has announced that 240 out of 866 employees are to be made redundant in its Michalovce production plant. Dismissals will take place from May to December 2009. Redundancies are caused by planned substantial restructuring of Unomedical production and commercial units in Europe. Delocalisation of all production activities from Denmark to Slovakia is foreseen.
Eurofound (2009), Unomedical, Internal restructuring in Slovakia, factsheet number 68744, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://dev.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/68744.