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.
Thales Group, a French-based global technology leader group, has announced the recruitment of 3,000 apprentices and trainees in France, of which around 25% will subsequently be hired on permanent or fixed-term contracts in 2025. This decision is in line with the group's expansion dynamic, which translated into the employment of more than 30,000 employees between 2022-2024. The group invests massively in a worldwide program of skills development - Learning company. It also possesses 13 academic fields and 18 trade academies.
A previous recruitment announcement for 4000 employees in 2022 was recorded in the ERM databaseThales 2022 - FR
Eurofound (2025), Thales, Business expansion in France, factsheet number 202587, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://dev.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/202587.
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...
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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...
