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.
Information / Communication Publishing Of Information; Production And Programming Of Audiovisual Publishing Activities 58.13 - Publishing of newspapers
400 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
30 December 2008
Employment effect (start)
1 January 2009
Foreseen end date
31 October 2009
Description
The Agora media group, publisher of the Gazeta Wyborcza daily, announced collective redundancies on 29 December 2008. The redundancies will be implemented between 1 January and 31 July 2009, and they will extend to 300 employees out of a workforce of 3,000. Previous redundancies at Agora were effected in 2004 and 2006, when the company shed, respectively, 500 and 250 jobs.
According to the information of 15.05.2009 the redundancies will be enlarged to 400 people and will last by the end of October 2009.
Eurofound (2008), Agora, Internal restructuring in Poland, factsheet number 67734, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/67734.
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