PepsiCo plans 50 redundancies in Belgium
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- 26 Oct 2022
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The American soft drinks and snacks company PepsiCo has announced a reorganisation of its European operation. Under the restructuring plans, PepsiCo intends to shed 50 jobs at its facilities here in Belgium. The company’s offices at Zaventem in Flemish Brabant will be hit particularly hard by the planned job cuts. The news was first reported in the Francophone daily ‘L’Avenir’ and has since been confirmed by the Christian trade union ACV.
PepsiCo has several facilities in Belgium, including in Veurne, Zeebrugge (both West Flanders) and at Zaventem in Flemish Brabant. The company intends to cut the costs of its support services, such as administration and sales. The company’s production facilities are not impacted by the restructuring. A total of 950 people work for PepsiCo in Belgium. Of these, 280 work in the company’s support services departments, 49 of whom now face losing their jobs. The lion’s share of the job cuts will be at PepsiCo’s Belgian HQ in Zaventem.
PepsiCo hopes to make use of the so-called Renault procedures, a procedure that is used for collective redundancy, when at least ten percent of the staff of (a part of) a company is made redundant at the same time. Read More...
