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 Other Transport Equipment 30.1 - Building of ships and boats
250 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
3 June 2015
Employment effect (start)
3 June 2015
Foreseen end date
31 December 2016
Description
250 new jobs will be created by Grupa Stocznia Gdańsk (Gdańsk Shipyard Group) by the end of 2016. The company declared to hire 100 people in 2015 and another 150 in 2016. The company, which specializes in the production of ship structures and parts for the offshore wind farm industry, will recruit fitters, welders, blacksmiths, and machine operators. The company will provide special training and workshops for the hired staff. Currently, GSG employs 1,000 people.
The sources report that Pomorska Special Economic Zone became the main owner of the shipyard grounds on the island 'Wyspa Ostrów' for the price of PLN 116mn (EUR 27.89mn USD 31mn) which will help in the revitalization of the shipyards grounds and creation of new infrastructure for future investors.
Sources
3 June 2015: Gazeta Wyborcza
11 June 2015: Wirtualny Nowy Przemysł
Citation
Eurofound (2015), Grupa Stocznia Gdańsk, Business expansion in Poland, factsheet number 83931, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/83931.
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.
