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Airbus central management informed the SE works council on 4 October 2016 that it wishes to consolidate the research and IT divisions of the Holding into the aircraft construction subsidiary and concentrate them in Toulouse. Many of the services based in the headquarters in Suresnes (near Paris) and Ottobrunn (near Munich) are to be relocated to the South of France.
Since then, there have been several extraordinary meetings of the SE works council and finally exact figures were communicated on 29 November 2016. There will be altogether 1,164 job losses, including 429 in Germany, and the plant in Suresnes is to be completely closed by mid 2018. So far, it is still unclear whether or not there will be any forced redundancies. The Airbus European works council had still managed to avoid this as a result of consultation in April 2014 . The SE works council was established under Dutch jurisdiction, after Airbus group's SE conversion in 2015 (see report in EWC News 1/2015). The legal headquarters of the Holding could also possibly be shifted from Amsterdam to Toulouse.
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