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.
Swiss owned confectioner Nestle has announced that it intends to relocate 300 production jobs from its sites in the UK and move them to its factory in Kargowa, Poland. Nestle has denied that the jobs are being moved as a result of the UK's decision to leave the EU and a spokesperson for the company has stated that the jobs are being moved in order to simplify production. Reports suggest that jobs will be cut from four of the company's UK factories, with the majority of the losses being at the Newcastle and York sites. It is being proposed that 143 jobs will be lost in York, 110 in Newcastle (the company's Fawdon site), 15 in Halifax and seven in Girvan, Ayrshire.
Trade unions Unite and GMB who represent affected workers have reacted angrily to the plans, and have committed to asking Nestle to rethink their plans. A 45 day statutory consultation period will be started and the final plans will be known following the conclusion of the process. Nestle has already stated that it hopes to achieve some reductions through a voluntary redundancy scheme.
Eurofound (2017), Nestle, Offshoring/Delocalisation in United Kingdom, factsheet number 90978, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://apps.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/90978.
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