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.
Manufacturing Manufacture Of Food And Beverage Manufacture Of Beverages 11.05 - Manufacture of beer
232 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
1 December 2005
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
Description
Early 2005, international brewer InBev had announced cost-cutting measures throughout the world. Belgium will also be affected by the measures as the company announced early December that 232 employees will lose their job in Belgium. According to John Brock, CEO of InBev, Belgium has too many breweries. Inbev will thus transfer the production of its Hoegarden brewery to Jupille. Bottling will still remain in the Hoegaarden site. Other services, such as marketing, sales and transportation will be affected by the measures. Following the announcement, workers at hoegaarden started a strike.
Eurofound (2005), InBev, Internal restructuring in Belgium, factsheet number 62609, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/62609.
Digitisation and automation technologies, including artificial intelligence (AI), can affect working conditions in a variety of ways and their use in the workplace raises a host of new ethical concerns.
The retail banking sector is fertile ground for studying the impacts of digitalisation on work and employment. Financial services are increasingly provided online, without the intermediary of customer-facing institutions.
European labour markets have recovered strongly from COVID-19. By the end of 2021, little more than 18 months after the start of the pandemic, employment rates in the EU were almost at pre-crisis levels.
