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.
A call centre in Castlebar, Co Mayo is to close in May 2005 with the loss of more than 100 jobs. Employees of UK-based Contact Partners Ltd were informed by management that the firm's Mayo base is to close down completely. However, the workers are being offered the option of relocating to the company's other Irish facility at Shannon Airport or either of the firm's two UK bases. The company said it was being forced by economic circumstances to streamline its Irish operations.
Sources
20 April 2019: The Irish Times
Citation
Eurofound (2005), Contact Partners Ltd, Closure in Ireland, factsheet number 61429, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/61429.
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.
