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.
Siemens Portugal, the Portuguese unit of German industrial conglomerate Siemens, will create 200 new jobs until the end of 2025. This recruitment will strengthen teams in the different areas of expertise, notably Smart Infrastructures, E-mobility, Digital Industries, as well as transnational hubs in different IT areas, Cybersecurity, and Shared Services.
This follows the hiring of 300 people in the previous year. Considering 2024 and 2025, Siemens Portugal strengthened its workforce in 500 workers. The company currently has 4,200 workers in Portugal.
Siemens is currently ongoing a restructuring process on a global scale, aiming at the reduction of 6,000 jobs: Siemens 2025 - World.
Eurofound (2025), Siemens Portugal, Business expansion in Portugal, factsheet number 202610, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://apps.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/202610.
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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This working paper offers a comprehensive methodological overview of the European Restructuring Monitor (ERM) databases. Even though the methodology has not changed over time, new categories have been added, and the way it has been used by researchers and policymakers...
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