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.
It has been announced that 600 jobs are to be cut from the Post Office's cash handling operations. The cuts come after Government funding for the business has been reduced from 210 million GBP per year to 80 million GBP. Further reductions are reported to be expected. The reduction in funding means that nine of the twenty-four cash handling depots are due to close by April 2017. The sites in Preston, Stoke, Hull, Edinburgh, Inverness, Poole, Eastbourne and Dartford, as well as a coin operation at Merlin House in Birmingham are the ones which are earmarked for closure. The Unite and CWU trade unions who represent postal workers have been highly critical of the plans to cut funding and to reduce services.
Eurofound (2016), Post Office, Closure in United Kingdom, factsheet number 87790, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://apps.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/87790.
Eurofound’s ERM restructuring legislation database offers an overview of key restructuring-related regulations in the EU Member States and Norway. Its content is continuously updated to reflect any changes made by national legislators in response to, for instance, policy shifts, legal...
Can Europe still achieve its ambitions for battery manufacturing? To answer this, the article looks at data from Eurofound’s European Restructuring Monitor and explores what recent large-scale restructuring events reveal about the state of play in the EU battery sector.
This working paper offers a comprehensive methodological overview of the European Restructuring Monitor (ERM) databases. Even though the methodology has not changed over time, new categories have been added, and the way it has been used by researchers and policymakers...
This Eurofound research paper explores key trends in restructuring in recent years, highlighting the companies that announced the largest job losses and job gains in the EU. It builds on an analysis of company announcements recorded in Eurofound’s European Restructuring...
In 2023, thousands of workers in big tech lost their jobs. Meta, Amazon, Google, Apple, Microsoft and Salesforce had been considered to offer good and secure jobs up to this point. Giants of the information and communication technology (ICT) sector,...
In 2024, the automotive sector in the EU came to the fore in public and policy discussions. The focus was on the slowdown in electric vehicle (EV) sales, rising global competition, belated investments in new technologies, and the potential closure...
