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.
The Italian ICT services company Engineering has announced around 650 job cuts in Italy, primarily affecting the finance, digital and support divisions. The company describes the affected activities as having low profitability and high levels of automation, and the geographical impact is concentrated across its various national sites.
According to company statements, the reorganisation is part of a strategic refocusing aimed at aligning operations with fast-moving digitalisation trends and the growth of the heterogeneous ICT market. However, the unions claim that the company has not demonstrated a significant imbalance between production levels and staffing, nor provided a detailed industrial plan or clear justification for the scope of the restructuring.
At the meeting on 3 March 2026, the company announced proposed job reduction measures, including early retirement, job rotation, internalisation of activities, company-wide training programmes, and the potential use of social shock absorbers. However, the unions emphasise that these measures should only be used as a last resort. No concrete proposals have yet been formalised regarding pre-retirement schemes or the scale of activities to be internalised.
Trade unions Fim, Fiom and Uilm have rejected the employer’s approach, declared a state of mobilisation, citing insufficient information on the rationale, methodology and long‑term impact of the restructuring. Negotiations remain ongoing, with additional meetings scheduled at national and territorial level to address training, redeployment and safeguarding of employment.
Eurofound (2026), Engineering, Internal restructuring in Italy, factsheet number 204371, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://apps.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/204371.
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