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.
The Italian company Fincantieri, one of the world’s largest shipbuilding groups, will hire 400 employees to work as welders and toolmakers at the company's site in Braila and Tulcea. The decision is to hire qualified workers who were trained by the company at its site from Braila and Tulcea by the end of 2020. In the last two years, the company decided to invest in specialised training for its future employees due to a shortage of specialised workers in Romania; currently, the company employs 465 Vietnamese workers. As of May 2019, Fincantieri employed through its subsidiary Vard approximately 5,000 people at its shipyards in Tulcea and Braila.
Eurofound (2019), Vard Group, Business expansion in Romania, factsheet number 97711, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://apps.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/97711.
Eurofound’s ERM restructuring legislation database offers an overview of key restructuring-related regulations in the EU Member States and Norway. Its content is continuously updated to reflect any changes made by national legislators in response to, for instance, policy shifts, legal...
Can Europe still achieve its ambitions for battery manufacturing? To answer this, the article looks at data from Eurofound’s European Restructuring Monitor and explores what recent large-scale restructuring events reveal about the state of play in the EU battery sector.
This working paper offers a comprehensive methodological overview of the European Restructuring Monitor (ERM) databases. Even though the methodology has not changed over time, new categories have been added, and the way it has been used by researchers and policymakers...
This Eurofound research paper explores key trends in restructuring in recent years, highlighting the companies that announced the largest job losses and job gains in the EU. It builds on an analysis of company announcements recorded in Eurofound’s European Restructuring...
In 2023, thousands of workers in big tech lost their jobs. Meta, Amazon, Google, Apple, Microsoft and Salesforce had been considered to offer good and secure jobs up to this point. Giants of the information and communication technology (ICT) sector,...
In 2024, the automotive sector in the EU came to the fore in public and policy discussions. The focus was on the slowdown in electric vehicle (EV) sales, rising global competition, belated investments in new technologies, and the potential closure...
