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.
Media 58 - Publishing activities 58.1 - Publishing of books, newspapers and other publishing activities, except software publishing 58.12 - Publishing of newspapers
133 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
7 September 2006
Employment effect (start)
7 September 2006
Foreseen end date
29 September 2006
Description
Staff at the Telegraph Group are to ballot for industrial action following the news that 133 jobs are being cut as part of its newspapers' move to a fully integrated newsroom. The job cuts will comprise of 54 journalists, 24 administrators and 55 staff from 'other departments'.
The group is due to inform staff this weekend of the jobs cuts and the National Union of Journalists called a meeting earlier today. The cuts are part of the Telegraph titles' move to seven-day production in a fully integrated newsroom, with print and online journalists working together.
According to sources, staff will know by the beginning of next week, once the letters have arrived, whether they are being 'let go' or whether their jobs are under threat.
Telegraph bosses are understood to want the whole process to be completed within three weeks.
Sources
7 September 2006: The Guardian
Citation
Eurofound (2006), Telegraph, Internal restructuring in United Kingdom, factsheet number 64032, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://dev.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/64032.