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.
Coal mine operator Rudnik Trbovlje-Hrastnik (RTH) is to lay off 136 miners in Trbovlje.
This is due to the cessation of coal extraction at the site in 2009 (according to the Law on the Gradual Closure of RTH from 2000, and its amendment in 2004) and the gradual downsizing of the company’s workforce until 2015.
The mine’s closure was decided out of economic and environmental reasons. The company’s current workforce of 370 staff is remaining after an earlier round of dismissals in 2007-2009.
UPDATE, 16-01-2014:
According to recent sources, the miners will receive notice in the coming weeks with a 85-days dismissal period. This means that dismissals will actually come into effect in April or May.
Eurofound (2014), Rudnik Trbovlje Hrastnik, Internal restructuring in Slovenia, factsheet number 76427, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://dev.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/76427.
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