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Health / Social Work Residential Health Care And Social Work Social Work Activities Without Accommodation 88 - Social work activities without accommodation
370 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
23 May 2017
Employment effect (start)
27 May 2017
Foreseen end date
31 December 2017
Description
The O2 Group, a household and childcare agency, has announced plans to recruit 370 new employees in the region Nouvelle Aquitaine (the region resulting of the merger of the three region Midi-Pyrénees, Aquitaine and Limousin) by the end of 2017. The new employees will be hired under permanent contracts for babysitting and home services positions. O2 has 14 agencies within the region Nouvelle Aquitaine. The employees mostly work part-time, but the group tries to increase the working time of its employees by offering them a range of tasks. A previous creation of 110 positions was recorded in 2011.
Sources
23 May 2017: Observatoire de la franchise
Citation
Eurofound (2017), O2, Business expansion in France, factsheet number 91049, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/91049.
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