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.
ComPlus Consulting, an IT consultancy company providing client support services, has announced a plan to employ about 700 new people in Estonia.
The company in setting up an international data processing and client service centre in Tallinn which will create 160 new jobs. The plan is to recruit persons who are unemployed and engaged in government programmes that have been set up to support re-employment in the situation of the crisis - for example apprenticeship programs and wage subsidies. With the apprenticeship program, the unemployed are provided intensive training on English and computer skills. The wage subsidy scheme will finance part of the salaries paid to the persons employed.
The jobs will be created gradually until in 2011 with the recruitment also coming in stages. In addition to the main office in Tallinn, Estonia, the company has offices in France, United Kingdom and United States of America. The largest part of the company turnover in Estonia is formed by the export of services to these countries.
Eurofound (2010), ComPlus Consulting, Business expansion in Estonia, factsheet number 70503, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://dev.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/70503.
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