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 Postal And Courier Activities 53.20 - Other postal and courier activities
290 - 300 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
23 February 2023
Employment effect (start)
23 February 2023
Foreseen end date
Description
Online grocery delivery service, Gurkerl, has notified about 290 of 1000 employees for termination. The full number of direct dismissals is yet uncertain. As with the sites in Munich and Frankfurt, the logistics center at the site in Vienna Liesing will likewise be fully automated. According to Gurkerl spokesman Manuel Kalleder, the job cuts are a necessary step due to automation. The online supermarket is scaling back its expansion course at several locations. Newspapers report poor working conditions shared anonymously by employees.
Rewe supermarket BILLA immediately responded to the terminations and offered jobs to all employees who were notified for termination. In mid-November 2022, Billa opened a second online warehouse in Vienna Floridsdorf, next to Vienna Inzersdorf, where it is offering the jobs.
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.
