Mittal Steel Poland to reassign 2,600 employees

"It is planned to place the workers with other companies of the group. We will also make use of provisions of the social package. Those leaving the company will, for instance, receive a severance package amounting to a monthly average salary times the number of months until the end of the period of validity of the social package," said Andrzej Krzysztalowski, spokesperson of Mittal Steel Poland. This means that an employee can receive on average of zl.120,000. The company is also planning to spin-off its rolling plant in Kraków, railway transport company in Kraków, Sosnowiec and Swietochlowice, as well as coking plant earlier than anticipated. (Puls Biznesu, pp. 1, 9) M.M.