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.
Financial Services Financial And Insurance Activities Financial Service Activities, Except Insurance And Pension Funding 64 - Financial service activities, except insurance and pension funding
210 - 300 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
19 October 2009
Employment effect (start)
19 October 2009
Foreseen end date
31 December 2010
Description
The Austrian Erste Bank plans to cut its workforce by up to 300 employees by the end of 2010 within the framework of a comprehensive cost reduction programme. According to the bank institute's CEO, Elisabeth Bleyleben-Koren, both personnel and material costs should be reduced by 7-10% within one year. This is expected to save about €20 million. According to the CEO, these measures are necessary due to dramatic loan defaults expected for the next year. However, Ms Bleyleben-Koren has ruled out the possibility of direct dismissals. Staff will be reduced only by means of natural attrition. Currently, the bank employs about 3,000 staff in Austria.
Sources
19 October 2009: Der Standard ()
Citation
Eurofound (2009), Erste Bank, Internal restructuring in Austria, factsheet number 69793, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/69793.
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.
