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.
A first plan of 7800 jobs was announced earlier in 2002. A second announcement occurred in September 2002: 3,000 job losses (1,200 at the Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein). On December 6 2002, a new announcement was made: 800 dismissals out of the 2,400 active in the business banking branch. In May 2003, management was discussing a collective worktime reduction to avoid further job suppressions. In August 2003, management announced its intention to suppress 4,700 more jobs during the following two years. In April 2004, since the beginning of the ‘Neue Dresdner' plan, some 11,000 jobs had already been shed. Since the announcement of August 2003, 1,200 jobs have been lost, 3,500 remain to be shed, but the possibilities offered by early retirement and similar measures have been used. Now, the company will resort to direct dismissals.
Eurofound (2002), Dresdner Bank, Internal restructuring in World, factsheet number 59812, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://dev.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/59812.
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