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.
On Thursday, 30th of October, the head of the Estonian Unemployment Insurance Fund announced that due to internal restructuring and a new implemented strategy, they will lay off at least 170 people in the upcoming year. The plan is to do the restructuring all at once not piece by piece. A new Head of the Fund was elected in March 2025 whose first order, that came from the National Government, was to cut operating expenses by 10%. The focus is on cutting levels of management and increasing efficiency rather than reducing customer service but the redundancies will affect the whole organisation.
Update 11.11.25: The official redundancy notice has been sent out now. Since April, the Unemployment Insurance Fund has already laid off 18 workers, but will lay off the rest of the 146 by the end of the year. An additional 10 people will be laid off in the beginning of next year. The amount of departments will be reduced from 34 to 23 which will affect offices all over the country. The headquarters in Tallinn will be affected the most with 49 people being laid off.
Eurofound (2025), Estonian Unemployment Insurance Fund, Internal restructuring in Estonia, factsheet number 203594, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://apps.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/203594.
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...
Can Europe still achieve its ambitions for battery manufacturing? To answer this, the article looks at data from Eurofound’s European Restructuring Monitor and explores what recent large-scale restructuring events reveal about the state of play in the EU battery sector.
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...
This Eurofound research paper explores key trends in restructuring in recent years, highlighting the companies that announced the largest job losses and job gains in the EU. It builds on an analysis of company announcements recorded in Eurofound’s European Restructuring...
In 2023, thousands of workers in big tech lost their jobs. Meta, Amazon, Google, Apple, Microsoft and Salesforce had been considered to offer good and secure jobs up to this point. Giants of the information and communication technology (ICT) sector,...
In 2024, the automotive sector in the EU came to the fore in public and policy discussions. The focus was on the slowdown in electric vehicle (EV) sales, rising global competition, belated investments in new technologies, and the potential closure...
