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Retail Retail Trade, Except Of Motor Vehicles And Motorcycles Retail Sale In Non-Specialised Stores 47.11 - Retail sale in non-specialised stores with food, beverages or tobacco predominating
700 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
23 March 2023
Employment effect (start)
23 March 2023
Foreseen end date
31 December 2023
Description
Dutch reatiler Action wants to expand in 2023 by hiring more than 700 new employees in its 30 shops in Lombardy, Piedmont, Veneto and Emilia Romagna.
Action has a diverse workforce of over 80,000 employees from 136 countries in Europe, with over 8,000 new jobs created in 2022, and a significant focus on employee training and promotion. The company reported strong financial results in 2021, with revenues of €8.9 billion and operating EBITDA of €1.2 billion.
Eurofound (2023), Action, Business expansion in Italy, factsheet number 108729, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/108729.
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.
