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.
The Danish postal service company, Post Danmark, announced on 22 September 2016 that 770 jobs in the company will be cut due to the steady slow down of business in recent years. 250 postal workers, that have already received a dismissal notice, will leave within the next two months and 520 other employees will be made redundant by the end of March 2017. The redundancies encompass 450 employees within mail delivery and at sorting terminals and 70 employees in administration. Furthermore, in May 2016 the Danish Parliament agreed to cancel the duty of Post Danmark to deliver mail on a day-by-day basis and sanctioned an extension of the delivery time of a standard letter to up to five days.
Eurofound (2016), Post Danmark, Internal restructuring in Denmark, factsheet number 88778, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://dev.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/88778.
This working paper offers a comprehensive methodological overview of the European Restructuring Monitor (ERM) databases. Even though the methodology has not changed over time, new categories have been added, and the way it has been used by researchers and policymakers...
This Eurofound research paper explores key trends in restructuring in recent years, highlighting the companies that announced the largest job losses and job gains in the EU. It builds on an analysis of company announcements recorded in Eurofound’s European Restructuring...
In 2023, thousands of workers in big tech lost their jobs. Meta, Amazon, Google, Apple, Microsoft and Salesforce had been considered to offer good and secure jobs up to this point. Giants of the information and communication technology (ICT) sector,...
In 2024, the automotive sector in the EU came to the fore in public and policy discussions. The focus was on the slowdown in electric vehicle (EV) sales, rising global competition, belated investments in new technologies, and the potential closure...
The more employee monitoring resembles surveillance – with its systematic, continuous and detailed tracking of employees' activities, behaviours or communications – the greater the potential for infringement of both privacy and data protection rights. Although the EU General Data Protection...
Since 2013, Eurofound's ERM database on restructuring-related legislation has been documenting regulatory developments in the Member States of the European Union and Norway which are explicitly or implicitly linked to anticipating and managing change. The most recent update to the...
