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.
Telekom Slovenije, the largest telecommunication company in Slovenia which currently employs 2,542 workers, is going to cut 250 more jobs in 2016. The company, which is based in Ljubljana (Osrednjeslovenska region), announced a restructuring plan in July 2015 which envisaged the deleveraging of the company and the overall reduction of 800 jobs by the end of 2018. After a job reduction of 206 posts in 2015, another 250 jobs are to be cut in 2016. However, there is no information so far about which group of workers will be affected.
Telekom Slovenije is a Slovenian multi-national group with subsidiaries in Kosovo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro and Germany. The whole group employs 3,803 workers. Its activities include fixed and mobile communications services, digital content and services, multimedia services and digital advertising, system integration and cloud computing services, construction and maintenance of telecommunications networks, and conservation of natural and cultural heritage in the Sečovlje Saltpans Regional Park.
Eurofound (2016), Telekom Slovenije, Internal restructuring in Slovenia, factsheet number 86686, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://dev.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/86686.
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