Suedzucker to dissolve Przeworsk sugar mill, but staff find this hard to swallow

However, factory employees claim the decision goes against earlier commitments and have organized a public protest for Thursday. Suedzucker had guaranteed that the mill would operate for a minimum 36 months after the takeover or otherwise the employees would receive a compensation package. At present, the company wants to offers only zł.2,000 in severance pay while employees want zł.6,000. "We never promised that the mill would be open for longer than two seasons and we offered an additional zł.100,000 for the reskilling of staff," Thomas Kirchberg, the company's president, explained. The closure of the plant follows the merger of Suedzucker Garbów, the owner of the Przeworsk sugar mill, with Cukier Małopolski, a company that is to consolidate five other factories owned by the German investor. (Puls Biznesu, p. 8) K.J.