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.
Caballito is specialised in abrasive chemical materials and is based in Vitoria (Álava). After an eight month strike of 140 of its 225 workers, the company has decided to relocate production to a new site in Poland. The company will continue activity in its plant in Vitoria for the 85 workers who did not follow the strike and will study a job reduction plan for the workers that followed the strike. The company Pferd Rüggeberg has invested 36 million euros in 2003 in its plant in Vitoria.
Eurofound (2004), Caballito, Offshoring/Delocalisation in Spain, factsheet number 60403, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://apps.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/60403.
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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