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.
Utilities Electricity, Gas, Steam And Air Conditioning Supply Electricity, Gas, Steam And Air Conditioning Supply 35 - Electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply
New offshoring locations
Germany
194 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
18 March 2008
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
Description
E.On, a multi-national group that operates in the energy sector, has announced that it is to cut 194 jobs at its site in Coventry in the West Midlands. Approximately 1,000 are employed at the Coventry site, and the jobs will be ‘offshored’ to a location that the group operates in Germany. Prospect, a trade union that represents energy workers, has stated that the majority of those jobs that will be lost will be highly skilled. Representatives from E.On have stated that those workers not wishing to move to Germany would be found jobs elsewhere within the UK. As of March 2008 there is no information on when the job losses will be implemented by. E.On employs approximately 80,000 internationally.
Sources
18 March 2008: BBC News
Citation
Eurofound (2008), E.On, Offshoring/Delocalisation in United Kingdom, factsheet number 66415, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/66415.
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