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 Chemicals And Pharamceuticals Manufacture Of Basic Pharmaceutical Products And Pharmaceutical Preparations 21 - Manufacture of basic pharmaceutical products and pharmaceutical preparations
120 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
29 June 2011
Employment effect (start)
29 June 2011
Foreseen end date
Description
American pharmaceuticals company Pfizer announced a reduction of its Polish workforce by 120. The cuts are said to affect mainly staff in the sales department and office staff.
Adam Linka, a spokesman of Pfizer, said that the company has implemented a programme that is to improve financial outcomes.
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.
