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.
Utilities Water Supply; Sewerage, Waste Management And Remediation Activities Waste Collection, Treatment And Disposal Activities; Materials Recovery 38.11 - Collection of non-hazardous waste
400 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
29 December 2018
Employment effect (start)
29 December 2018
Foreseen end date
Description
Healthcare Environmental Services (HES) has confirmed that it has ceased to operate resulting in the loss of all 400 jobs. The company, which had its headquarters in North Lanarkshire as well as ten regional centres across the UK, had lost contracts with National Health Service Scotland and 17 National Health Service trusts in England to dispose of clinical waste after it was found to be stockpiling waste. Workers have been given notices of redundancy, though it is not clear how services will be maintained in the future and whether some workers might be transferred to new contractors under the Transfer of Undertakings Protection of Employment (TUPE) provisions.
Sources
Citation
Eurofound (2018), Healthcare Environmental Services , Closure in United Kingdom, factsheet number 96287, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/96287.
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