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 shipping company Hav Line in Bergen is employing 100 persons for a new salmon slaughtering boat. The boat, called 'Norwegian Gannet', will be the largest boat for slaughtering salmon in the world, according to the company, with a capacity for slaughtering 25 fish per minute. The boat will be in use from September this year.
The family Sekkingstad and Haugland group are behind the investments in the new boat. The boat is expected to reduce transport and logistics onshore related to salmon export, as slaughtering and packing will take place on the boat. Competitors in the Norwegian salmon market have expressed concerns about loss of jobs in Norway. According to the CEO, Arnesen, the fear of competition and loss of Norwegian jobs is exaggerated. The company will still create jobs in Norway and be more of a supplement to the Norwegian salmon export industry.
Eurofound (2018), Hav Line, Business expansion in Norway, factsheet number 94459, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://dev.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/94459.
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...
