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.
Finnish meat producer HK Scan plans an internal restructuring, resulting in the loss of 140 jobs at the sites in Skara and Örebro. Furthermore, the company is to create 40 jobs in Linköping and Kristianstad. The net employment effect hence is the loss of 100 jobs.
The plan is to centralise the production and enhance efficiency. All slaughtering and butchering of pigs are to be conducted in Kristianstad (Skåne) and Siljans Chark (Dalarna), leading to a loss of jobs in Skara and Örebro. The sites in Skara and Örebro will continue producing ready meals such as Swedish meatballs and hamburgers.
Negotiations with trade unions have been finalised.
The ERM previously reported on restructurings at the same company in 2012, 2009 and 2007.
Updated 26/05/2014: Negotiations with trade unions have now concluded and an agreement was made that 127 jobs will be cut at the site in Skara.
Eurofound (2014), HK Scan, Relocation in Sweden, factsheet number 76683, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://dev.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/76683.
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