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.
Sodexo is reducing staff by 330 in Gävle, Sweden. The plans were announced on 15 of November and are expected to be in full effect by the end of 2018.
Sodexo recently lost biddings on food delivery services to elderly care and on delivery of cleaning services in the Municipality of Gävle. The company has delivered these services to Gävle since 2004, but the municipality wanted to encourage smaller companies to enter public procurement and therefore split service delivery into smaller parts this year. The lost services for Sodexo amount to a total of SEK 60 million (€5,8 million).
Sodexo employees have largely been working with so called combi-contracts, meaning that they have switched between food-related and cleaning jobs. The now lost biddings therefore force large internal restructurings for the company, with part of the staff becoming redundant. Along with splitting service delivery into smaller parts, Gävle Municipality decided to remove the requirement of full-time employment for employees in service delivery companies. This decision has been criticised by the union as it impairs working conditions for employees in delivering companies.
Eurofound (2018), Sodexo, Internal restructuring in Sweden, factsheet number 95843, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://dev.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/95843.
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