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 Electrical Equipment 27 - Manufacture of electrical equipment
300 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
19 April 2010
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
31 December 2012
Description
Electrolux, the world's largest producer of domestic appliances, is to cut 300 jobs at its site located at Forlì. In this plant the group employs 1,100 workers and produces ovens. Moreover, the company's plan envisages new investments in order to produce high-quality ovens at the Forlì plant.
The trade unions have requested to meet the company's managers in order to find alternative solutions to the job-cuts.
Sources
26 April 2010: La Repubblica
Citation
Eurofound (2010), Electrolux, Internal restructuring in Italy, factsheet number 70463, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/70463.
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.
