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Metso temporarily lays off at the Tampere boiler workshop

Wednesday 17. December 2008 - Metso has concluded the employee negotiations on temporary lay-offs of personnel commenced on November 4 regarding all personnel at the boiler workshop in Tampere, Finland.

As a result, almost all of 175 employees at the workshop will be temporarily laid off as work on the production lines will cease. The lay-offs result from a reduction in the amount of work, caused by changes in the schedules of projects in the order backlog.

At the beginning the temporary lay-offs will affect some dozens of people and the duration of the lay-offs varies, depending of the workload, from some weeks to longer periods of time. In future the amount of people and the duration of the lay-offs will vary according to the work situation. The lay-offs will begin in January 2009.