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.
Région Bruxelles-Capitale / Brussels Hoofdstedelijke Gewest;
Location of affected unit(s)
Forest
Sector
Manufacturing Manufacture For Transport Equipment Manufacture Of Motor Vehicles, Trailers And Semi-Trailers 29.1 - Manufacture of motor vehicles
200 - 600 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
7 October 2004
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
31 December 2004
Description
Volkswagen (VW) has announced the redundancy of 200 employees on its site of Forest before the end of 2004. The job cuts are part of the restructuring programme of VW, called ‘for motion'. 400 other jobs are at risk, but should be kept if two conditions are met. The first one is a production target of 230,000 units for 2005, instead of 190,000 in 2004. The second one is the ‘automotive park', logistics centre regrouping all of the company's subcontractors, still to be created. Unions argue that the dismissed workers should be the last hired (mainly interim contracts), while company management would seem to favour the redundancy of the less productive elements.
Sources
7 October 2004: Les Echos
Citation
Eurofound (2004), Volkswagen, Internal restructuring in Belgium, factsheet number 60698, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/60698.
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.
