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.
Boehringer Ingelheim France, subsidiary of the German pharmaceutical group Boehringer Ingelheim, is to cut 178 jobs. The management has already announced a restructuring plan to its French central works council.
According to the trade unions FO and CFE-CGC, the social plan will affect 242 positions including 178 job cuts (143 medical sales reprensentatives and 35 administrative jobs in Reims and Paris). The remainder 64 employees will probably receive a proposal of internal transfer.
As announced the restructuring plan covering the corporate facilities in Southern Europe aims to maintain the group’s competitiveness. Current conditions such as price reductions and the slow uptake of new products are mentioned.
Management and unions started negotiations in the framework of the recent law about the "employment securisation" to agree on the content of the social plan.
On 31 July 2013, the group has closed its last factory in France in Blanquefort, near Bordeaux (Gironde) with 53 dismissals.
Eurofound (2013), Boehringer Ingelheim France, Internal restructuring in France, factsheet number 75840, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://apps.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/75840.
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