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.
Retail Retail Trade, Except Of Motor Vehicles And Motorcycles Retail Sale In Non-Specialised Stores 47.1 - Retail sale in non-specialised stores
130 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
6 January 2015
Employment effect (start)
5 January 2015
Foreseen end date
5 January 2015
Description
Minipreço, a discount supermarket chain in Portugal, part of the Spanish Dia (which was formerly owned by the French supermarket company Carrefour) has dismissed 130 workers. On 5 January 2015, four supermarkets were closed resulting in 130 redundancies. The reason for the closures is the debt accumulation that resulted after a decline of profit margins. Workers blame the Spanish group 'Dia' for the raising of "profit margins for them." This is the second collective dismissal in Guimarães within one month.
Sources
6 January 2015: Noticias ao minuto
Citation
Eurofound (2015), Minipreço, Internal restructuring in Portugal, factsheet number 78221, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/78221.
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.
