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.
Manufacturing Manufacture Of Computer, Electrical Electronic And Optical Products Manufacture Of Electrical Equipment 27 - Manufacture of electrical equipment
560 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
6 April 2020
Employment effect (start)
6 April 2020
Foreseen end date
Description
Polish provider of electrical systems Elektrobudowa announced that it launched a collective dismissal programme which will affect about 33% of the workforce. It implies that about 560 positions will be cut across Poland. The conditions of the restructuring will be negotiated with the local trade unions.
 The company was declared bankrupt on March 24 after failing to secure new investments.
Elektrobudowa produces power equipment and provides complete electrical systems (including engineering, project management, procurement of materials and equipment, installation of systems, tests, commissioning, putting into operation and operation of the electrical systems) for the power sector, industrial sector, municipal and railway. Currently, the company employs 1,700 people across Poland.
Sources
6 April 2020: Wirtualny Nowy Przemysł (www.wnp.pl)
Eurofound (2020), Elektrobudowa, Bankruptcy in Poland, factsheet number 100292, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/100292.
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.
