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.
Mining / Quarrying Mining And Quarrying Mining Of Coal And Lignite 05.10 - Mining of hard coal
840 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
27 July 2016
Employment effect (start)
1 October 2016
Foreseen end date
31 December 2016
Description
Romanian state-owned power producer Hunedoara Energy Complex (CEH) announced a restructuring and reorganisation plan affecting 840 jobs. The job cuts will start to be implemented as of 1 October 2016. According to trade unions, 452 employees will be made redundant at the coal-based power plant in Mintia, another 100 at the plant in Paroşeni and finally 228 at the mines in the Jiu Valley.
CEH had been in insolvency proceedings from January until May 2016 , but the Alba Iulia Appeal Court ordered a refile at Hunedoara Court. CEH has debts of over 333 mil EURO, of which 300 mil EURO are to the state.
In April 2016, the Board of Directors prepared a redundancy plan which was approved by the General Meeting of Shareholders and sent to the Ministry of Energy. According to the plan, 840 jobs were declared redundant as of 1 October 2016. This plan was challenged by the trade union representatives at the County Labour Inspectorate earlier this month.
In the meantime the Ministry of Energy prepared a draft for a Government Decision which aims to reduce CEH’s activity, to balance the budget and to improve the financial indicators of the company.
The redundant employees will receive only unemployment benefits and monthly incomes. The trade union asserted that the collective agreement was denounced as illegal by the insolvency administrator last March. Unionists said that they hope to negotiate a new collective agreement which includes compensatory payments for collective redundancies.
CEH has some 6,260 employees working in the coal mines Lupeni, Lonea, Livezeni and Vulcan, as well as in the coal-based power plants Mintia and Paroseni.
Sources
27 July 2016: Ziarul Financiar
27 July 2016: capital.ro
7 June 2016: capital.ro
7 June 2016: agerpres.ro
Citation
Eurofound (2016), Complexul Energetic Hunedoara, Internal restructuring in Romania, factsheet number 88242, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/88242.
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.
