Huntsman to cut 104 jobs at German textile chemicals site

20 May 2009 14:12  [Source: ICIS news]

TORONTO (ICIS news)--Huntsman will cut 104 jobs at its textile chemicals production site in Langweid, near Augsburg in Germany, through end 2010, the company said on Tuesday.

Guy Wolff, a spokesman for Huntsman’s regional offices in Basel, Switzerland, told ICIS news that the cuts affected about one third of the company’s workforce in Langweid.

The staff reduction was part of a restructuring of the textile chemicals business Huntsman announced last December, Wolff said.

At the time the company could not specify how many jobs would be lost at Langweid as the job reduction had to be negotiated with the workers’ council, he said.

German chemical union IG BCE said the dismissed workers would receive generous benefits under a social plan workers' council and union negotiated with Huntsman.

In light of the global economic crisis, the resolution with Huntsman – which included a commitment to maintain production at Langweid – was a success, Torsten Falke, a regional IG BCE leader, said.

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