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 Computer, Electrical Electronic And Optical Products Manufacture Of Computer, Electronic And Optical Products 26 - Manufacture of computer, electronic and optical products
1,300 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
14 August 2006
Employment effect (start)
1 October 2006
Foreseen end date
Description
The Czech subsidiary of Taiwan manufacturer of LCD monitors, displays and TV screens, is to open its second plant in the Czech Republic in Brno-Tuřany in October 2006. The expansion will bring 300 new jobs. The company, operating in the Czech Republic since August 2005, would thus double the current number of its workers in the country. Additionally, the company is planning to establish its own manufacturing facility that would employ another 1,000 people.
Sources
14 August 2006: Hospodárske noviny
Citation
Eurofound (2006), BenQ, Business expansion in Czechia, factsheet number 63895, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/63895.
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.
