Press Release: Employment: Commission proposes €918,000 from Globalisation Fund to support former workers of GAD abattoirs in France

The European Commission proposed on the 24 October 2014 to provide France with €918,000 from the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund (EGF) to help 760 former workers of GAD, an enterprise which slaughters pigs and processes pork. The proposal now goes to the European Parliament and the EU's Council of Ministers for approval.

The French State and GAD are together funding a range of measures to help the dismissed workers back into employment. France applied for support from the EGF to set up a structure to provide advice and guidance to the redundant workers ('cellule de reclassement').

The EC’s proposal was adopted by the European Parliament Committee on Budgets on 20 November 2014, and was scheduled be put to the vote in next week's plenary session, on 25 November.

• Primary Source

EurActiv, 21.11.14: €1 million EU aid package for redundant French abattoir workers http://www.euractiv.com/sections/agriculture-food/eu1-million-eu-aid-package-redundant-french-abattoir-workers-310229

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