Netherlands: a mobility centre to reclassify Nedcar employees

A novelty in the Netherlands: a mobility Centre for the car industry (CMA) was instituted in October 2006 to accompany the program of departures volunteers set up by Nedcar. The centre gathers multiple players : social partners, the public employment service, regions, temporary work agencies and other private partners. (Ref 061247)
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Subsidiary at 100 % of the Japanese group Mitsubishi, Nedcar owns the only plant of automobile assemblage in the country. From 5000 persons in 2000, its enrolment will fall to 2000 employees next year. The break of a contract by Daimler Chrysler, which interrupted, in April 2006, the assemblage of its model Smart Four, lead to the dismissal of 1000 persons, one third of the current enrolment. The scope of the redundancy plan encouraged the government to experiment something new : the national e

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