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 Chemicals And Pharamceuticals Manufacture Of Chemicals And Chemical Products 20.51 - Manufacture of explosives
200 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
26 November 2020
Employment effect (start)
26 November 2020
Foreseen end date
Description
According to a decision of the Extraordinary General Meeting, Polish producer of matches PCC Consumer Products Czechowice in Czechowice-Dziedzice is expected to be liquidated within the next few months. As a result, 200 employees will be dismissed, and the production plant closed. The decision is related to the COVID-19 pandemic and a drop in demand for matches. The company informed that all obligations towards employees and contractors will be fulfilled.
The company was founded in 1919. PCC Consumer Products Czechowice is one of the largest matches producer in Europe manufacturing 70 million matches daily; it sells its products in Europe, Africa and South America.
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.
