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.
UK Coal has blamed geological difficulties for its decision to halt production at the Harworth colliery in Nottinghamshire, which employs 460 workers. Harworth is one of a handful of deep mines remaining in Britain and it is to be mothballed once the current coalface is worked out.
UK Coal said that it was offering jobs at other pits to the Harworth workforce and was looking at the feasibility of working another seam from the site. 'There will not be compulsory redundancies, there are jobs at other collieries. We are trying to keep the skills in the industry.'
Eurofound (2005), UK Coal, Closure in United Kingdom, factsheet number 61946, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://apps.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/61946.