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Manufacturing Manufacture Of Basic Metal And Fabricated Metal Products Manufacture Of Fabricated Metal Products, Except Machinery And Equipment 25.12 - Manufacture of doors and windows of metal
150 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
22 November 2022
Employment effect (start)
22 November 2022
Foreseen end date
31 December 2023
Description
The aluminium window manufacturer, K.Line, has announced the recruitment of 150 employees by the end of 2023, notably for a new production unit currently under construction which aims to serve the joinery market for the tertiary sector. K.Line has already hired 200 people by 2022. The group has 1,500 employees in its four factories at Les Herbiers (Vendée) employment area and has achieved a turnover of €428 million in 2021 (+20%). The challenge for the management is to recruit in a region where the unemployment rate does not exceed 3.5%, half the national average.
To recruit, the company organises open days. It has granted salary increases (+2.5% in September 2021, +3% at the beginning of 2022, then +2.5% in July 2022) and improved well-being at work: opening of a large company restaurant, additional parking spaces, comfortable break and walking areas. The thermal comfort of the workshops has been improved, as has the ergonomics of the workstations, in order to create more accommodating conditions for female staff, which currently represents 43% of the workforce.
Eurofound (2022), K. Line, Business expansion in France, factsheet number 107889, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/107889.
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