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 University of Tartu has announced the creation of 438 new jobs, which is a huge increase in employment in Estonia.
For the University of Tartu, the increase resulted from changes in the contracts and financing of PhD students. Doctoral candidates are now given fixed-term contracts and hired as junior researchers. However, there is also an ongoing recruitment process to fill the positions of doctoral student-junior researchers, starting at the beginning of 2024, according to Kristi Kuningas, head of HR of Tartu University. The number of seasonal employees is small and there is no plan to decrease the number of employees any time soon, thus, the business expansion is a permanent job creation.
Eurofound (2023), Tartu Ülikool, Business expansion in Estonia, factsheet number 200529, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/200529.
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.
