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.
RENFE, the Spanish state-owned railway company, has announced a new public employment offer for the 2024 financial year, planning to hire 600 new entry-level train drivers in the company, though a selection procedure to be held on 13 April 2024 in Madrid.
Most of the new drivers (595) will be assigned to state-wide traffic service, while the remaining five will cover cross-border traffic with France. This employment offer includes 33 commercial entry operator job positions, 24 maintenance and manufacture (field of adjuster-mounter) entry operator job positions and, finally, 14 maintenance and manufacture (field of electricity-electronics) entry operator job positions.
RENFE did announce several employment creation processes in 2023 RENFE-2023a-ES, RENFE-2023b-ES, RENFE-2023c-ES and RENFE-2023c-ES
Eurofound (2024), RENFE, Business expansion in Spain, factsheet number 200963, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://apps.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/200963.
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