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 cooperative Suur-Seudun Osuuskauppa (SSO) has initiated employer-employee negotiations to cut up to 100 jobs. The company will review its operations in order to make inefficient units more efficient by reorganising and closing some units. Through the restructuring SSO wants to enable investments in digitalisation and further develop customer service solutions. As of October 2016, there is no information regarding when the employment effects will be implemented by.
SSO is made up of around 80 different business units and the cooperative consists of a number of businesses among which gas stations, restaurants, super markets and hotels.
Updated, 24/10/2016;Following concluded employer-employee negotiations up to 89 jobs will be cut corresponding to 70 full-time jobs.
Eurofound (2016), Suur-Seudun Osuuskauppa (SSO), Internal restructuring in Finland, factsheet number 88811, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://dev.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/88811.
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