The board of directors of the railway company PKP Cargo, which is currently in the process of announced today the decision to proceed with the Collective redundancies at plants and headquarters of the company which will concern up to 1,041 employees who will be laid off by the end of next month and up to another 1,388 employees who will lose their jobs by 30 September next year.

Collective redundancies will follow those already implemented by PKP Cargo and during the summer of last year when had terminated over 2,500 employment contracts and in that period another 1,150 employees had left their jobs.

The board explained that despite the measures taken so far in the field of employment in the context of the restructuring of the company, the situation of the company requires further measures as part of the restructuring plan which will be presented by the end of this month.

The Board of Directors announced that it had asked the administrator of the PKP Cargo's heritage to take action that goes beyond the from the scope of ordinary management, consisting in the launch of consultations with trade unions on the redundancy plan, and that it has received consent to initiate such consultations by the of the administrator. The Board of Directors specified that, at the end of the consultations, agreements will be signed for the execution of collective redundancies or regulations issued for dismissals and clarified that these measures can be taken only in the absence of opposition from the judge who supervises the restructuring process of PKP Cargo.