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.
The mobile communications provider Hutchison "3" Austria is to shed up to 170 jobs by the end of January 2014, according to the company's CEO Mr Trianow.
The company took over the competitor Orange in February 2013. It has now decided to make the brand 'Orange' disappear by the end of the third quarter 2013. At the time of the acquisition, Orange employed 600 employees whereas "3" 800.
Since then, about 100 employees have left the company voluntarily or have received 'golden handshakes'. In June 2013, 97 employees have been registered in the Public Employment Service's (AMS) early warning system. They are store employees as the number of stores is to be reduced from 140 to 90. In addition to that, 70 employees stand to lose their jobs by the end of January 2014 due to the closure of an Orange call centre in Wiener Neustadt (Lower Austria). The headcount reduction is necessary due to huge investments in the expansion of the network.
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.
