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 BBC has announced that it will launch a new channel for Scotland which will result in the creation of 140 new jobs. Eighty of the jobs will be for broadcast journalists and the remaining 60 jobs will be for technology specialists. The latter jobs will be added over a period of about three years. There is no specific information as to when the journalism jobs will be filled, though it is expected that this would happen in advance of the channels launch, which is scheduled for February 2019.
Last year, the group announced the creation of 200 new jobs at its media centre in Salford.
Eurofound (2018), BBC, Business expansion in United Kingdom, factsheet number 94669, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://dev.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/94669.
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...
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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...
