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 British chemical company Matthey Poland has announced that it will create 400 new production jobs at its new catalyst facility in Gliwice. The plant, located in the Katowice Special Economic Zone, Poland, is expected to be launched in April 2020. The company has invested about PLN 450 million (€104.31 million as at 26 February 2020) in the factory with two production lines. The plant will specialize in the production of catalysts for various types of engines.
Johnson Matthey is one of the largest European suppliers of catalysts and Lithium-ion battery systems. The company has been operating in Gliwice since 1999; currently, the company has a plant in Gliwice specializing in the production of lithium-ion batteries.
Eurofound (2020), Johnson Matthey Poland, Business expansion in Poland, factsheet number 99838, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://dev.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/99838.
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...
