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 Of Food And Beverage Manufacture Of Food Products 10.11 - Processing and preserving of meat
175 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
28 June 2019
Employment effect (start)
1 July 2019
Foreseen end date
Description
The Danish multinational producer of pork meat Danish Crown announced that it will dismiss 175 employees at the slaughterhouse in Horsens. Although pig meat prices are currently record high, Danish pig producers send fewer pigs for slaughtering. The company explains that some members of the cooperative that owns Danish Crown (DC), in continuation of the drought last summer, have stopped growing piglets to avoid buying expensive feed. At the same time, the export of Danish piglets sent for fattening and slaughtering primarily in Germany and Poland continued to increase. The result is that fewer pigs are sent to Danish slaughterhouses.
The management of DC will now start the mandatory discussions with the slaughterhouse workers union, NNF, about how to mitigate the effects of the redundancies.
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.
