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.
Suez the waste management company is seeking to reduce its workforce in Doncaster by 106 jobs. The company which has the contract to collect waste on behalf of the Doncaster Local Authority had originally intended to make compulsory redundancies to achieve the job cuts before the introduction of new contractual terms from March 2018. However, following formal consultation and talks with conciliation service Acas, compulsory redundancies have been suspended for a year. The company still intends to make the cuts, but hopes that the job losses can be achieved in the meantime through an enhanced redundancy package. A ballot for strike action will not now take place following the agreement.
Eurofound (2017), Suez, Internal restructuring in United Kingdom, factsheet number 92362, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://dev.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/92362.
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