Restructuring events
European Restructuring Monitor (ERM)
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.
Cobendai, a Spanish automotive dealership group, has begun issuing objective dismissal notices to its 170 employees, citing economic, organisational and productive reasons and following the collapse of negotiations over its collective redundancy process (ERE). The dismissal letters were given on the 26th of June, following months of severe financial difficulties, during which many workers accumulated three to four months of unpaid wages while the company entered pre-insolvency proceedings.
Worker representatives have criticised the handling of the process and the lack of transparency, while affected employees describe the outcome as the end of decades-long careers without financial security. Hyundai has stated that it continues to work individually with affected customers to resolve outstanding cases.
The situation is particularly striking given that Hyundai Spain named Cobendai its “Dealer of the Year” in 2025.
Eurofound (2026), Cobendai, Closure in Spain, factsheet number 300655, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://apps.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/300655.
Eurofound’s ERM restructuring legislation database offers an overview of key restructuring-related regulations in the EU Member States and Norway. Its content is continuously updated to reflect any changes made by national legislators in response to, for instance, policy shifts, legal...
Can Europe still achieve its ambitions for battery manufacturing? To answer this, the article looks at data from Eurofound’s European Restructuring Monitor and explores what recent large-scale restructuring events reveal about the state of play in the EU battery sector.
This working paper offers a comprehensive methodological overview of the European Restructuring Monitor (ERM) databases. Even though the methodology has not changed over time, new categories have been added, and the way it has been used by researchers and policymakers...
This Eurofound research paper explores key trends in restructuring in recent years, highlighting the companies that announced the largest job losses and job gains in the EU. It builds on an analysis of company announcements recorded in Eurofound’s European Restructuring...
In 2023, thousands of workers in big tech lost their jobs. Meta, Amazon, Google, Apple, Microsoft and Salesforce had been considered to offer good and secure jobs up to this point. Giants of the information and communication technology (ICT) sector,...
In 2024, the automotive sector in the EU came to the fore in public and policy discussions. The focus was on the slowdown in electric vehicle (EV) sales, rising global competition, belated investments in new technologies, and the potential closure...
