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.
200 professional employees have been dismissed country-wide from 16 of the recently privatised laboratories of the National Public Health and Medical Service. The new owner of the formerly state-financed laboratory-network, Euro-Labor Invest Ltd., is laying off employees since the network is operating with a loss. The most affected units are in Szekszárd, Szolnok and Salgótarján, where in the future staff will only collect samples and refer them to other units for analysis. Most laid off workers face immense difficulties finding a job in health care in the affected areas.
Eurofound (2006), Euro-Labor Invest, Internal restructuring in Hungary, factsheet number 63290, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://dev.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/63290.
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...
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