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.
Škoda Auto, the leading Czech car manufacturer, announced it had introduced a personnal audit verifying the usefulness of employment positions in the company, namely in administration, maintenance, logistics and spare parts distribution. This measure is seen as a threat to 2,800 jobs. According to personnel director Martin Jahn, who denies the speculation about the number of dismissals, the company considers some workers to be transferred within the company and some production activities to be outsourced at the national level. The German mother group Volkswagen has also introduced a saving programme that could reduce the workforce by 20,000 people.
Eurofound (2006), Škoda Auto, Internal restructuring in Czechia, factsheet number 63553, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://apps.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/63553.