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.
Transportation / Storage Warehousing And Support Activities For Transportation, Postal And Courier Activities Warehousing And Support Activities For Transportation 52.1 - Warehousing and storage
1,200 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
4 September 2022
Employment effect (start)
5 September 2022
Foreseen end date
30 September 2022
Description
Amazon, a multinational technology company focused on e-commerce, has announced the creation of 1200 jobs at its newly built logistics centre in Kaiserslautern, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
As announced on 4 September 2022, Amazon will start operating its third logistics centre in Rhineland-Palatinate on 5 September, creating 1000 new jobs for shipping employees without special qualifications and 200 for specialists and managers. The US company announced that 1200 employment contracts have been signed. In the future, about 1800 people are to be hired, the company stated.
Amazon currently employs around 20,000 permanent logistics staff in 20 logistics centres at 19 locations in Germany.
Eurofound (2022), Amazon, Business expansion in Germany, factsheet number 107293, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/107293.
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.
