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.
On 25 September 2012, the president of France Télévisions, the French public broadcast network, has announced in a letter to the workforce, its intention to cut over 500 positions by 2015.
The agreement between France Télévisions and the government, foresees the cut of 500 positions by 2015 (5% of the workforce). It is reported by the unions that the president Rémy Pflimlin wants to go further and to enlarge a former voluntary departure plan to cut 500 supplementary positions. France Télévisions has to deal with a decrease of its budget allowance from the government and an important decrease of advertising contracts. The management wants to use voluntary departures and will negotiate a social plan with forced dismissals if there are not enough volunteers willing to leave the group.
Eurofound (2012), France Télévision, Internal restructuring in France, factsheet number 74309, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://apps.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/74309.