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.
State Forestry Enterprise, a state-owned enterprise which organises and co-ordinates the activities of forest regeneration, maintenance, protection and rational use of forest resources intends to dismiss 114 employees in Kaunas. The company has already handed out layoff notices to all 114 employees. The main cause of the dismissals is the reorganisation of the state forest sector in Lithuania which started at the beginning of 2018. Since the beginning of the reorganisation, the State Forestry Enterprise has already dismissed 157 employees who did not agree to work under the changed conditions (see previous case State Forestry Enterprise 2018 LT). Currently State Forestry Enterprise employs 3,528 employees.
Eurofound (2019), State Forestry Enterprise, Internal restructuring in Lithuania, factsheet number 97906, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://dev.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/97906.
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...
