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 German pharmaceutical group Merck has announced the recruitment of 350 employees, including 80 in 2021, at its site in Molsheim (Bas-Rhin) which specialises in the manufacture of tools for the detection of microbiological pollutants.
The group announces an investment of €25 million to develop the site's production capacity from 2021. The investment will be destined to the creation of a new production unit for 'single-use assemblies', that is watertight bags are used in the manufacturing process of vaccines, such as those currently being developed against COVID-19.
Merck Molsheim employs than 1,700 and it is the group's third largest site worldwide. Currently, the site has three production units representing its three major activities: BioMonitoring, Lab Water Solutions & Instruments, and Systems and Solutions.
Eurofound (2021), Merck, Business expansion in France, factsheet number 104488, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://dev.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/104488.
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...
The more employee monitoring resembles surveillance – with its systematic, continuous and detailed tracking of employees' activities, behaviours or communications – the greater the potential for infringement of both privacy and data protection rights. Although the EU General Data Protection...
Since 2013, Eurofound's ERM database on restructuring-related legislation has been documenting regulatory developments in the Member States of the European Union and Norway which are explicitly or implicitly linked to anticipating and managing change. The most recent update to the...
