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 Wood And Paper Materials Manufacture Of Paper And Paper Products 17 - Manufacture of paper and paper products
211 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
15 July 2009
Employment effect (start)
1 September 2009
Foreseen end date
30 September 2009
Description
US cigarette paper Schweitzer-Mauduit International Inc. has announced that Papeterie de Malaucène is slated to shut down in September. The 211 workers are asking the government to intervene to help find a buyer for the plant.
On 22 July, two managers of US cigarette paper manufacturer Schweitzer-Mauduit were held by workers for more than three hours over redundancy plans.
The workers held two managers of US cigarette paper manufacturer Schweitzer-Mauduit for more than three hours in Malaucene in southeastern France, demanding they continue to negotiate over the closing of their plant, officials and witnesses said.
Union representatives at a string of French companies have recently barricaded their managers in their offices during negotiations over job losses and restructuring, releasing them only when concessions have been agreed.
The wave of incidents, which in some cases has seen managers locked in overnight but always released unharmed, has added a more menacing twist to France's often-tense industrial relations.
Sources
27 July 2009: Les Echos
21 July 2009: AFP
Citation
Eurofound (2009), Papeterie de Malaucène, Closure in France, factsheet number 69349, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/69349.
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.
