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.
Following several weeks of negotiations between the management of BKV and trade unions, agreement was finally reached about wages within the company. Strike planned for 4 September 2007 was averted with the trade unions accepting the employer's offer. The agreement, valid until 31 December of this year, guarantees a one-time bonus of HUF 12,000 for employees, a base wage raise in the amount of HUF6,000, and HUF7,100 base wage increase for next year. However, wage increase was possible with the reorganisation of timetables, efficiency will be ensured by eliminating downtime will be shortened, and by the dismissal of further 150 employees on top of the 650 employees for whom early retirement was offered as other job reduction measure in the course of the company's reorganisation.
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.
