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 For Transport Equipment Manufacture Of Motor Vehicles, Trailers And Semi-Trailers 29.1 - Manufacture of motor vehicles
146 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
9 April 2014
Employment effect (start)
3 March 2014
Foreseen end date
9 April 2014
Description
Swedish producer of trucks and city buses Scania announced the loss of 200 jobs at the unit in S?upsk. The dismissals will affect both production and administration departments. The main reason for this decision is a shrinking order book. The company is in the process of negotiating with the local trade unions the conditions of the restructuring plan. Scania also announced dismissals in Sweden affecting 50 jobs.
Founded in 1891, Scania is a major Swedish automotive manufacturer of trucks and buses. Currently the company employs over 41,000 people in about 100 countries. Scania has been operating in Poland since 1995. The factory in S?upsk employs 537 people.
The ERM reported on previous restructurings at the company in 2012, 2009 and 2007.
Updated, 09-04-2014: Scania announced that 146 jobs were cut in the S?upsk factory as a part of the restructuring programme that was implemented in March 2014. Initially, it was expected that 200 jobs would be cut in S?upsk but the number was revised downwards. The source reports that the retention of the 54 jobs was a result of new contracts between Scania and Norwegian and German carriers.
Eurofound (2014), Scania, Internal restructuring in Poland, factsheet number 76686, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/76686.
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.
