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.
Transportation / Storage Warehousing And Support Activities For Transportation, Postal And Courier Activities Postal And Courier Activities 53.20 - Other postal and courier activities
1,000 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
26 October 2020
Employment effect (start)
26 October 2020
Foreseen end date
31 December 2020
Description
Romania's second largest courier company, Urgent Cargus, is to recruit 1,000 persons by the end of the year. The jobs are expected to be created for courier and sorting positions, including more than 700 in Bucharest, Brasov, Timisoara, Arad, Oradea, Sibiu, Cluj, Iasi, Constanta.
The company is providing courier services to private customers and companies, through a national network of 60 sorting and storage centres, 68 Ship & Go agents and a fleet of more than 2,600 courier vehicles.
Eurofound (2020), Urgent Cargus, Business expansion in Romania, factsheet number 102381, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/102381.
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.
