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.
Food service company ESS Support Services will dismiss 100 chefs and cleaning personell currently working on offshore installations in Norwegian waters. The reductions are a reaction to the declining level of activity on the Norwegian continental shelf. This has contributed to the closing of two floatels staffed by ESS, within the end of the year.
100 out of 900 permanent employees will be dismissed, and the company is also temporarily suspending all use of temporary employment. Union representative Oddleiv Tønnesen says the cuts, which he sees as a result of cutbacks in Statoil, are hitting employees hard and that many are heavily affected.
Several companies in the Norwegian petroleum services industry are also restructuring. According to Teknisk Ukeblad, the total number of job reductions in the industry is 3524, per September 25. DNB estimates the figure to be 4300 jobs.
Eurofound (2014), ESS Support Services, Internal restructuring in Norway, factsheet number 77607, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://dev.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/77607.
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