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 SNCF railway company has announced the recruitment of 600 agents on its Ile-de-France network the 'Transilien'- where 13,000 people are employed- in 2022. According to the SNCF, these recruitments should allow it to pursue the company's 'strategy of constant improvement of services to passengers'. Of the 600 new staff, the SNCF is looking for 200 train and tram-train drivers, 150 sales staff to work in stations, 150 train maintenance technicians, 40 production staff and 60 managers in engineering or information system areas. SNCF pointed out that some positions do not require a diploma, such as station sales agents responsible for ensuring passenger satisfaction.
SNCF is is France's national state-owned railway company and it was founded in 1938.
Previous business restructurings were recorded in the ERM database in 2021, with 2,000 job cuts (SNCF-2021-FR) and in 2020, with 1,527 job cuts (SNCF-2020-FR).
Eurofound (2022), SNCF, Business expansion in France, factsheet number 106830, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://dev.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/106830.
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