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Arts / Entertainment Arts, Entertainment And Culture Gambling And Betting Activities 92 - Gambling and betting activities
223 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
4 February 2021
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
Description
Casino Cosmopol, a Swedish state-owned casino company, has concluded collective bargaining negotiations and will cut 223 jobs. The job cuts affect all three casinos owned by the company. These casinos are located in Malmö, Gothenburg and Stockholm.
The COVID-19 pandemic and the restrictions set to curb its spread are the reason behind the restructuring. All casinos owned by the company have been closed since the outbreak of the pandemic in March 2020.
In addition to the job-cuts, there will be changes to work organisation. The company aims to provide training for its employees so that, for instance, security personnel will be able to work as dealers and the other way around.
The union representative argues that these cuts were expected since the company has been hit so hard by the pandemic. According to the her, the employees understand that reorganisation of tasks is needed but the changes can also cause a lot of stress.
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.
