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 Manufacturing Of Furniture And Other Manufacturing Other Manufacturing 32 - Other manufacturing
460 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
6 April 2005
Employment effect (start)
5 April 2005
Foreseen end date
31 December 2013
Description
Ferplast, the pet products manfucaturer group decided to strengthen its business activities in central Europe. A new investment of about 1.43 billion SKK, located in the south Slovakian Komárno region, will consist of a production and assembly plant and a cross-Europe distribution centre. Ferplast Slovakia management plans to make about 1 billion SKK annual turnover in 2006. According to fresh information, employment effect timeline was specified to 2013.
Sources
9 May 2008: Hospodárske noviny
6 April 2005: Hospodárske noviny
Citation
Eurofound (2005), Ferplast Slovakia, Business expansion in Slovakia, factsheet number 61389, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/61389.
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.
