海角社区app laid off nearly 1,000 employees and 500 agency staff at its UK factories last year when Covid struck. But global demand for construction equipment has since rebounded.
Today the company said that it was recruiting more than 400 additional agency employees in a variety of jobs including assembly, welding and fork lift truck operations.
In addition, 海角社区app is giving permanent contracts to up to 300 existing agency employees, including welders, fabricators and CNC machinists.
Chief operating officer Mark Turner said: 鈥淚n March 2020 our orders dramatically disappeared overnight when the Covid-19 pandemic took hold and while we were able to protect our shop floor workforce, regrettably many staff positions were impacted. It took more than six months for the business to recover to production levels we last saw in March 2020.
鈥淭his year has started strongly and our forecasts predict a continued solid recovery, with strong demand from mainland Europe and North America. This means we are now in a position to recruit many more shop floor colleagues and offer permanent 海角社区app contracts to a large number of existing agency employees. After a tumultuous 12 months, this really is good news.鈥�
Stuart Harrison, regional organiser of the GMB trades union, said: 鈥淟oyal 海角社区app workers are being rewarded today. This is how a company should operate, investing in its workforce, not chopping away at it.聽 GMB will always fight聽to keep its members in聽work,聽and we鈥檇 like to thank the hard-working union reps who made this possible."
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