Mass exemptions: In January 2025, he received termination 721 Beko employees, 43 with ABB and Four from IT Harmann Connected Services. In the following months, the dismissal is to hit seven people employed in the RB Trans Service BIS branch in Skierniewice – according to information Voivodship Labor Office in Łódź, which is referred to by “Gazeta Wyborcza”. However, in February he may lose his job Another few thousand people In Polish post office.
Fatal year: In 2024, there were the most announced and completed group layoffs from the pandemic explosion – wrote Rzeczpospolita. The announcements of the exemptions included over 37 thousand peoplei.e. one fifth more than a year earlier. Ultimately, it lost work 27 thousand people (it's almost 60 percent more than a year ago). In the opinion of experts, one of the main reasons for dismissals is Increase in operating costs related to increasing the minimum salary (from January 2025 it increased to PLN 4,666 gross). Another reason is the transfer of business by companies to other countries.
Exemptions in Beko: The company announced last year that will close the plants in Łódź (where stoves, dryers and plastic components are produced) and in Wrocław (where refrigerators are produced). By decision of the concern, the job was to lose the job 1.1 thousand people at the factory in Łódź and 700 next in the Wrocław plant. Then a letter of intent was signed with the Turkish company MEFA regarding the possible takeover of the Łódź factory, which will allow maintain 250 jobs.
A company from Switzerland releases: Also last year, the intention to release OK. 400 people announced the Swiss ABB. The decision was made in connection with the closing of the engine factory near Łódź and the transfer of production to China.
Read more: “Mass exemptions in the Polish city. Several hundred people will lose their jobs. We have data“.
Sources: Gazeta Wyborcza, Radio Łódź, RepublicIAR