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.
Retail Retail Trade, Except Of Motor Vehicles And Motorcycles Retail Sale Of Other Household Equipment In Specialised Stores 47.5 - Retail sale of other household equipment in specialised stores
130 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
31 August 2020
Employment effect (start)
1 January 2021
Foreseen end date
30 June 2021
Description
Home decor and gardening retail company Leroy Merlin announced plans to create 130 customer service and warehouse jobs at its new store in Gorzów Wielkopolski, Poland. The unit, with an area of over 10,000 square metres, based in former Tesco building, is expected to be launched in the first half of 2021. The source reports the chain has already initiated a recruitment process. Leroy Merlin is looking for logistics coordinators, sales coordinators, designers, logistics specialists, warehouse staff and customer advisers.
The company has been operational in the country since 1994, it runs over 60 stores employing over 10,000 people. In February 2020, the company registered an event of job creation in the city of Radom, Poland (150 new jobs).
Eurofound (2020), Leroy Merlin, Business expansion in Poland, factsheet number 101645, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/101645.
Digitisation and automation technologies, including artificial intelligence (AI), can affect working conditions in a variety of ways and their use in the workplace raises a host of new ethical concerns.
The retail banking sector is fertile ground for studying the impacts of digitalisation on work and employment. Financial services are increasingly provided online, without the intermediary of customer-facing institutions.
European labour markets have recovered strongly from COVID-19. By the end of 2021, little more than 18 months after the start of the pandemic, employment rates in the EU were almost at pre-crisis levels.
