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.
Health / Social Work Human Health Services And Activities Human Health Activities 86.1 - Hospital activities
1,000 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
18 May 2006
Employment effect (start)
1 August 2006
Foreseen end date
Description
The most modern hospital in Sofia is ready-built. The owner is doctor Torao Tokuda from Japan and the hospital is the first one built outside Japan, where Mr. Tokuda has 300 hospitals, hospices and homes for elderly people. After few days the hospital will receive the first patients in its 283 rooms, 12 operational, clinical laboratories with the most recent equipment.At the beginning, the hospital will have capacity for 500 patients. In the beginning of the year 2007, Tokuda hospital will be able to have 1,000 patients at once. Every Bulgarian citizen will have access to the new hospital, which will work with the Bulgarian Health Insurance Fund. Foreigners could be treated there too, but they have to pay for that. The hospital is located on 51 270 sq.m. The total investment is Euro 100 million. Each day about 100 physicians and nurses are appointed. Till the end of September the total number of the employed in the hospital will be 1000.
The profit generated will be re-invested in Bulgaria.
Sources
19 May 2006: Trud
18 August 2006: Trud
Citation
Eurofound (2006), Tokuda, Business expansion in Bulgaria, factsheet number 63522, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/63522.
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.
