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.
Manufacturing Manufacture For Transport Equipment Manufacture Of Motor Vehicles, Trailers And Semi-Trailers 29.32 - Manufacture of other parts and accessories for motor vehicles
Shortly before the announcement of the downsizing, the firm was among the first companies that introduced a new overtime system in January 2019, making use of the so-called ’slave law’. This law makes it possible for employers to require overtime amounting to 400 hours per year per employee, without trade union consent. This implies that the firm responds to decreasing demand by cutting workforce and simultaneously maximising the workload of the remaining staff.
Eurofound (2019), Antolin Hungary, Offshoring/Delocalisation in Hungary, factsheet number 97360, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/97360.
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.
