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.
Manufacturing Manufacture For Transport Equipment Manufacture Of Other Transport Equipment 30.11 - Building of ships and floating structures
173 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
15 December 2021
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
Description
Navantia, a Spanish public company that manufactures military ships and high-tech civilian ships, has announced the call for 173 positions to work in the shipyards of the Ferrol estuary (Galicia). These will be technicians, operators, and office staff junior positions. Specifically, the company is looking for engineers, computer scientists, electricians, pipefitters, and assemblers, among others. This employment expansion is part of the employment expansion established in the Strategic Plan 2018-2022 agreed between the company, public employment services, and trade unions.
Eurofound (2021), Navantia, Business expansion in Spain, factsheet number 106065, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/106065.
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.
