Restructuring events
European Restructuring Monitor (ERM)
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.
The management of the Banque de France announced to the unions, at a meeting, the abolition of 13 of its 37 regional branches by the second half of 2022. Together with the one already being closed, the total will be increased to 14. In total, 135 jobs could thus be lost. These branches are in charge of recycling and supplying banks and shops in France with banknotes. With the development of alternative means of payment to cash, such as cards, their usefulness is being questioned by the institution's management, which has already closed dozens of them. Twenty years ago, there were around 200.
Two former restructuring were recorded in the ERM Database in 2012 with 2,500 job cuts and in 2003 with 2,300 job cuts.
Eurofound (2021), Banque de France, Closure in France, factsheet number 103181, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://apps.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/103181.
Eurofound’s ERM restructuring legislation database offers an overview of key restructuring-related regulations in the EU Member States and Norway. Its content is continuously updated to reflect any changes made by national legislators in response to, for instance, policy shifts, legal...
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