Danish Crown: redundancy plan for Grinsted’s slaughterhouse’s 700 employees

The Danish Crown cooperative, which produces 90% of pork meat in Denmark and is set to close at the end of September, is helping the 700 employees working at the Grinsted slaughterhouse, in Jutland (West), to find a new job. (Ref. 06888)
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“We set up a redundancy plan two months ago, first to help our employees find a new job in the area and to give them training opportunities if they wish to switch jobs,” explains Jan Winther, director of human resources at Danish Crown. 300 of the 700 employees who will lose their job at the Grinsted slaughterhouse when it closes, at the end of September, have already found another job. “Those are mostly low skilled jobs: shop assistants, truck drivers, workmen in another factory – especially i

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