New layoffs in Serbia - Aptiv in Zaječar will shut down operations in the first quarter of 2026, it was confirmed for "Vreme" in that company
The company Aptiv will close the factory in Zajecaru in the first quarter of the following year, it was confirmed for "Vreme" in that company.
"We continue to optimize our operations in line with the dynamic global market. To this end, we will close our factory in Zaječar in the first quarter of next year. A comprehensive plan has been formed to support our employees during this transition, aligned with local labor laws and regulations," the response states.
As further stated, the company works closely with customers and partners in order to maintain business continuity and minimize any potential disruptions.
Exactly how many workers will lose their jobs, what are the specific reasons for shutting down this plant and what will happen to other plants of this company in Serbia, they did not state in the answer.
Glas Zaječar previously announced that 500 Aptiv employees would lose their jobs in that city.
The British company Aptiv currently has three plants in Serbia - in Zaječar, Leskovac and Novi Sad.
As recently reported by the Rešetka portal, part of the employees, that is, about 500 workers at the company's plant in Leskovac, were terminated this month by mutual agreement with severance pay, but the National Employment Service denies this.
The director of the National Employment Service, Milan Bosnić, said on that occasion that the workers at the Aptiv factory in Leskovac were not offered mutual termination of the employment contract and pointed out that it was not a question of any wave of dismissals, as stated in some media reports.
Bosnić stated that based on the voluntary requests of the workers, 101 consensual terminations of employment were concluded, and that those workers were paid incentive severance pay, the National Employment Service reported, Tanjug reported.
A part of the workers in that company in Leskovac already received termination notices earlier this year, the media reported.
Aptiva's first plant in Serbia was opened in 2015 in Novi Sad.
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