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.
More than 200 posts will be lost at three defence munitions centres in Scotland under reorganisation plans. The number of staff employed at DMC Crombie in Fife is set to fall from 168 to 26 by 2010. The 360 posts at Beith, North Ayrshire, will be cut by 60 and the 110 posts at Glen Douglas in Argyll will fall to 90. Both centres expect 10 redundancies.
Defence Secretary John Reid said the moves were aimed at improving support for front-line troops. The munitions centre at Crombie, in west Fife, has been operational since 1916. The MoD has decided that its explosive processing and storage capacity will not be required in the long term. However, Crombie will continue to carry out support work for Royal Navy ships and Royal Fleet Auxiliaries.
Eurofound (2005), Ministry of Defence, Internal restructuring in United Kingdom, factsheet number 61952, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://dev.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/61952.
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