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.
On 25 July 2006, following the failure of negotiations between management and works council about restructuring, BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeräte GmbH (BSH), a home appliances company, announced that it planned to end its production of washing machines at the Berlin site.
After several weeks of strike and new negotiations involving BSH, the works council as well as the Metalworkers' Union IG Metall and the regional Employers' Association of the Metal Industry, an agreement was settled in October 2006.
The Berlin unit will continue working until at least 2010, yet 246 out of 616 jobs will be cut. 30 employees will be transferred to another Bosch or Siemens plant, 216 employees will be dismissed by 1 Febuary 2007 and employed by a job-creation company. The agreement regards cutting the production of washing machines by half and to extend working time to 36 hours per week, without compensation.
Eurofound (2006), BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeräte, Internal restructuring in Germany, factsheet number 63842, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://dev.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/63842.
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