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.
Nearly 800 staff are to lose their jobs at T-Mobile sites across the UK as part of a European-wide restructuring by the parent group, Deutsche Telekom. Staff at the head office in Hatfield, Hertfordshire, together with call centre workers at places such as Merthyr Tydfil in south Wales and Greenock in Scotland are liable to lose their jobs, the firm said.
A spokeswoman for T-Mobile explained that 795 jobs would go in total, with 535 coming through redundancies and 260 positions being outsourced to third-party operators of call centres.
The company spokeswoman said ‘We cannot say at this moment which parts of the country will be affected but we hope to have details within two weeks after talks with the unions'.
Eurofound (2005), T-Mobile, Internal restructuring in United Kingdom, factsheet number 61104, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://dev.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/61104.
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