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Hanau (dpa / lhe) - At the electrical manufacturer Hitachi-ABB in Hanau-Großauheim, around a fifth of the 350 jobs are expected to be retained by the end of 2023.

A corresponding agreement between the company and IG Metall had been reached, said a company spokesman for the German Press Agency on Wednesday.

This is an additional agreement to the collective social plan.

The regulation means that around 280 jobs will be cut over the next three years and around 70 jobs will remain.

IG Metall protested in December with a warning strike against the threat of closure of the Japanese-Swiss company's location.

Gas-insulated switchgear is manufactured in the plant.

The company management is currently negotiating with the general works council about a balance of interests, said the company spokesman.

It is also about the Mannheim location, which is also affected by conversion plans.

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The day before, IG Metall Hanau-Fulda had already announced that the company had guaranteed to keep at least 70 employees until the end of 2023.

In addition, it had been regulated that a collective wage project for the future should be developed under the title "Industrial policy future dialogue and structural development for the revitalization of the Großauheim location".

Hanau's Lord Mayor Claus Kaminsky (SPD) said of the agreement that the initially intended complete closure was now off the table: “Partial success is better than nothing and certainly also the result of public pressure on corporate headquarters.

We would have wished for more. "