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 March 10th, an assessment presented to the board of La Poste, the national postal service, showed a decrease of 11,700 employees for last year (2010). Even if La Poste has recruited 2,800 employees in the same year it was not enough to compensate for the numbers of departures due to retirement. In some areas of the service, one person in every four or five retired and were not replaced. La Poste has to deal with the structural decrease in traditional postal activities and expects a decrease in employees of 30% between 2009 and 2015. Unions denounced the rate of the decrease, with an average of 7,000 positions each year being lost from 2004 to 2008, 8,700 in 2009 and now 11,700 in 2010.
Eurofound (2011), La Poste, Internal restructuring in France, factsheet number 71726, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://dev.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/71726.
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