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.
German car manufacturer Opel has announced that it will cut up to 190 jobs at its factory in Gliwice through a voluntary departure programme. Employees will be able to join the programme in January 2018. Redundant workers will receive severance pay according to their seniority. The source reports that the company plans to liquidate the third shift which it implemented in 2015 and which created 300 new jobs at the time; and restore a two shifts system in the factory. The changes will be implemented at the beginning of February 2018.
Opel belongs to US-American General Motors and employs around 34,300 people worldwide. General Motors has been operating in Poland since 1994. The plant in Gliwice was opened in 1998.
Eurofound (2018), Opel, Internal restructuring in Poland, factsheet number 93140, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://dev.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/93140.
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...
