Tele-Fonika to shift production to new sites and lay off 900 employees

Cable producer Tele-Fonika Kable, formerly known as Elektrim Kable, has anno unced it will be closing down its factory in Ozarow Mazowiecki. During a mee ting with the press, vice-president of Tele-Fonika, Jan Kurbiel, said that t he management has informed the trade unions that up to 900 redundancies will be made. The liquidation process will last several months. Some of the 2,600 employees will be offered jobs in other Tele-Fonika factories located in Byd goszcz and Szczecin, while others will be moved to the new headquarters in M yslenice. The main reason for the closure is the fact that efficiency levels at the Ozarow plant are much lower than at the Tele-Fonika plants located in southern Poland. Another factor behind the management's decision is the wors ening decline in cable sales, particularly telecommunication cables. (Prawo i Gospodarka, p. 7) M.T.K.