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 Land, Water And Air Transportation Land Transport And Transport Via Pipelines 49.1 - Passenger Rail Transport, Interurban
1,350 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
28 November 2024
Employment effect (start)
5 January 2025
Foreseen end date
Description
The Spanish railway company Renfe intends to expand its workforce with an additional 1,350 employees by the close of 2024. This will include 600 drivers, 330 commercial operators, 300 workshop staff, 71 military professionals, and 40 maintenance managers.
The corporation is also training the 18th batch of train drivers, set to complete in July 2025, and initiating a new program for candidates who did not pass the third and fourth rounds of the State Agency for Railway Safety tests. These training and employment programmes are very important for RENFE to successfully respond to the company needs.
This new call of employment adds to the already public call for 650 new employees Renfe-2024-ES and 600 new entry drivers RENFE-2024-ES, already presented in this ERM in 2024. RENFE did also announce several employment creation processes in 2023 (for instance RENFE-2023-ES), 2022 (for instance RENFE-2022-ES) and 2021 RENFE-2021-ES.
Eurofound (2024), Renfe, Business expansion in Spain, factsheet number 202034, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/202034.
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.
