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.
Manufacturing Manufacture Of Coke And Refined Petroleum Products Manufacture Of Coke And Refined Petroleum Products 19.2 - Manufacture of refined petroleum products
160 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
9 June 2004
Employment effect (start)
10 June 2004
Foreseen end date
31 December 2004
Description
Ercros is a Spanish company specialised in the production of refined petroleum products. The company has had a profit of 7.35 million euros in 2002 but losses of 17.82 million euros in 2003. After registering losses again in the first quarter of 2004 (7.4 million euros), the company has proposed on 9 June 2004 a job reduction plan to the labour representatives. The plan includes the dismissal of 194 of its workforce in the whole of the Ercros's production centres in Spain. The labour representatives consider the proposal as exaggerated. The Ercros management announced its intention to reach an agreement with the labour representatives. This job reduction plan runs parallel to a plan of 82 incentivised dismissals before 2005, 50 of which will take place in 2004.
On 19 January 2005, labour representatives confirmed the preagreement of last July creating 160 redundancies with early retirement and incentivised dismissals.
Sources
10 June 2004: El País
18 June 2004: El País
18 June 2004: La Gaceta de los Negocios
19 January 2005: El País
Citation
Eurofound (2004), Ercros, Internal restructuring in Spain, factsheet number 60385, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/60385.
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.
