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 Swiss do-it-yourself retail chain Bauhaus has started the recruitment of 130 employees for its newly opening store in Venlo (south Netherlands), expected to open mid-2018. It is recruiting for a range of positions, including sales personnel, logistics personnel, and skilled construction personnel (e.g. tilers, painters, sanitary furniture specialists), on both full time and part time basis. Positions are open to entry-level as well as experienced workers, explicitly welcoming applicants over 50 years of age. The opening of the store was announced several years previous, but construction was delayed due to legal objections brought by companies in the immediate vicinity (including one other DIY store), which was eventually overruled by the Council of State.
Bauhaus is currently active in 17 countries across Europe. The store in Venlo will be Bauhaus' third in the Netherlands.
Eurofound (2017), Bauhaus, Business expansion in Netherlands, factsheet number 92899, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://dev.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/92899.
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...
