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.
Low-cost Irish airline Ryanair has recently announced plans to create 2,000 new jobs in Ireland by 2030. Therefore, the company will hire at least 250 people over the next 3 years. New positions will be for pilots, cabin crew, engineers and IT developers. The large job announcement was made as part of plans by the airline to grow its annual passenger numbers by 10 million between now and 2030. Tánaiste Leo Varadkar welcomed the news.
Ryanair currently employs 2,600 people in Ireland as well as 17,000 worldwide.
Previous business expansion were recorded in the ERM database early this year, with 200 job created in June (Ryanair-2022a-IE) and 150 jobs created in March (Ryanair-2022b-IE).
Eurofound (2022), Ryanair, Business expansion in Ireland, factsheet number 107474, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/107474.
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.
