Overview
- Talks have resumed between the works council and Zalando management, with representatives demanding detailed figures to justify the shutdown and exploring alternative scenarios instead of negotiating a social plan.
- A job fair is scheduled for February 26 at Erfurt’s Steigerwaldstadion with about 60 regional employers, targeting new roles for staff including roughly 500 workers on soon‑to‑expire fixed‑term contracts.
- Zalando plans to close the Erfurt logistics hub at the end of September, putting about 2,700 company roles and at least 300 jobs at service providers at risk, and the state has formed a task force to support those affected.
- Thuringia’s economics ministry says more than €22 million previously granted to Zalando as investment aid cannot be clawed back because the obligations were fulfilled and the time limits have lapsed.
- Die Linke has requested a February 25 special Landtag session to propose standard repayment, site‑commitment and verification clauses with public naming of repeat subsidy‑seekers, a plan the CDU rejects as likely to deter investors.