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 BBC director general, Mark Thompson, has been accused of 'ripping the heart out of BBC programme making', as broadcasting unions reacted with fury to his announcement of a further 2,050 job cuts on 21 March 2005. The cuts announced by Mr Thompson will fall heaviest on the BBC nations and regions, where 735 jobs are to be lost, and BBC News, which is earmarked to lose 420 journalistic and administrative posts. The job losses, which amount to a 13% reduction in staffing levels across production and broadcasting departments such as news, sport and drama, were described as 'absolutely murderous' by one union official.
It follows 1,730 job losses announced across the BBC's professional services divisions earlier in march.
Union leaders have already warned they will ballot staff for industrial action if there are compulsory redundancies.
Eurofound (2005), BBC, Internal restructuring in United Kingdom, factsheet number 61286, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://dev.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/61286.
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