Skellefteå municipality on Northvolt lay-offs: We aim to keep everyone

Workers walk at the site of the Northvolt Ett factory in Skelleftea, north Sweden on February 23, 2022. (JONATHAN NACKSTRAND/AFP via Getty Images)
  • Car battery manufacturer Northvolt announced that 1,600 jobs are to go in Sweden, 1,000 of them at its plant in Skellefteå.
  • A lot of the employees at Northvolt in Skellefteå have work permits and will need to find employment if they want to stay in Sweden.
  • Kristina Sundin Jonsson at Skellefteå municipality says: ”We want to keep those thousand people that eventually could risk to lose their jobs.”

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