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.
Information / Communication Publishing Of Information; Production And Programming Of Audiovisual Publishing Activities 58 - Publishing activities
53 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
1 February 2018
Employment effect (start)
1 February 2018
Foreseen end date
16 March 2018
Description
Major Polish media group Agora has announced that it will decrease its staff in the printing department by 53 workers through a collective dismissal programme. The job cuts represent a drop of around 16.3% in the department’s total workforce, and will take effect between 15 February and 16 March 2018. The conditions of the programme are regulated by an agreement signed with the local trade unions and the workers’ council. The restructuring programme is a sequence to changes in the media market, which have been occurring over the last years.
Agora, the publisher of ‘Gazeta Wyborcza’, has been operating since 1989. The group is one of the largest media companies in Poland.
Sources
1 February 2018: Wirtualny Nowy Przemysł
Citation
Eurofound (2018), Agora, Internal restructuring in Poland, factsheet number 93251, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/93251.
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