Restructuring events
European Restructuring Monitor (ERM)
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.
Up to 500 soldiers are to lose their jobs in the 2011-12 financial year as the Ministry of Defense says the Army is nearing its staffing limit of approximately 100,000 troops. 300-500 troops will be given compulsory redundancy under a process it calls Manning Control Points; this is a system which has been used to discharge more than 3000 soldiers in the past, but which has not been used since 2002. The MoD has announced that it will focus on those soldiers who have between 12 - 15 years service, will not involve those injured in combat, and that affected soldiers will benefit from a resettlement grant of about £10000. It is not yet known which troops will be affected.
Eurofound (2010), the Army, Internal restructuring in United Kingdom, factsheet number 70337, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://apps.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/70337.