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
New offshoring locations
Poland
271 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
24 April 2009
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
31 December 2009
Description
TV maker Toshiba is transferring television production from its Plymouth factory to Poland in a move to centralise its European television production in the country. The plant currently employs 321 people, 50 of whom will remain at the factory to repair televisions and to advise the Polish team. Union officials for Unite questioned the economic rationale for moving to Poland stating that wages had risen in the country and that the move may not make economic sense.
Sources
Citation
Eurofound (2009), Toshiba, Offshoring/Delocalisation in United Kingdom, factsheet number 68779, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/68779.
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.
