The restructuring events database contains factsheets with data on large-scale restructuring events reported in the principal national media and company websites in each EU Member State. This database was created in 2002.
Retail Retail Trade, Except Of Motor Vehicles And Motorcycles Retail Sale In Non-Specialised Stores 47.11 - Retail sale in non-specialised stores with food, beverages or tobacco predominating
1,000 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
17 March 2020
Employment effect (start)
17 March 2020
Foreseen end date
Description
Morrison’s, the UK-based supermarket chain, has announced that it is creating 1,000 staff and 2,500 pickers and drivers positions in the company’s distribution centres.
The company plans are to expand its home delivery service in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. The Chief Executive Officer said that Morrison’s was determined to help customers and support and protect staff at this difficult time and added that the new jobs will be offered to those people whose jobs are impacted by the Covid-19. The positions going to be created are both temporary and permanent, and the recruitment drive is already underway.
Eurofound (2020), Morrison Supermarkets, Business expansion in United Kingdom, factsheet number 100131, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/100131.
Digitisation and automation technologies, including artificial intelligence (AI), can affect working conditions in a variety of ways and their use in the workplace raises a host of new ethical concerns.
The retail banking sector is fertile ground for studying the impacts of digitalisation on work and employment. Financial services are increasingly provided online, without the intermediary of customer-facing institutions.
European labour markets have recovered strongly from COVID-19. By the end of 2021, little more than 18 months after the start of the pandemic, employment rates in the EU were almost at pre-crisis levels.
