Weak orders: ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe to introduce short-time working from August 2012
Against
the background of continuing weak orders at ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe AG,
short-time working is being introduced from August 2012. This has been agreed
between the works council and the company. Short-time working will affect the
locations Duisburg-Hamborn, Duisburg-Hüttenheim, Bochum, Dortmund and
Siegerland. The Finnentrop location is initially excluded from short-time
working. Over the past few weeks the lower level of capacity utilization has
been offset initially using instruments such as flexible working time accounts,
leave accounts and repair shifts.
As things stand at present the company
expects that short-time working will have to be continued until the end of the
year. Currently affected by the temporary adjustment measures are the
cold-rolling and coating areas and parts of the hot-rolled processing
operations. Once the details of the short-time working plans for August have
been agreed with the works councils, some 2,170 out of a total of 17,500
employees are expected to be affected by short-time working. Together with the
works councils, the company is looking into carrying out skill-upgrading
measures during short-time working.
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