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 Danish restaurant chain Jensens Bøfhus announced that it will dismiss 250 of its 700 employees due to the coronavirus crisis. The reason for the restructuring is that the restaurant chain and the union 3F have a dispute. According to Danish law, companies involved in a lockout or strike cannot obtain funds from the government's job emergency package, when they have an unsolved conflict.
On 23 March 2020 Jensens Bøfhus locked out all members of 3F, who are employed at the restaurant. The reason for the conflict is that the restaurant wanted to decrease the hourly wage by DKK 20 (€2,7 as at 24 April 2020) while it also cancelled the collective agreement with 3F. Consequently, the union disagreed and declared a conflict with restaurant's management. If the restaurant had postponed the lockout it would have been eligible for receiving DKK 30,000 (€4,023) for each employee sent home on stand by the end of the quarantine measures.
Eurofound (2020), Jensens Bøfhus, Internal restructuring in Denmark, factsheet number 100367, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://apps.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/100367.