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 For Transport Equipment Manufacture Of Motor Vehicles, Trailers And Semi-Trailers 29.1 - Manufacture of motor vehicles
250 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
13 November 2008
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
Description
Leyland Trucks, a company manufacturing trucks, is to cut 250 jobs at its Farington site. The job losses reflect a 'severe decline' in demand while the factory will close down for two weeks over Christmas instead of the normal week. This is the second announcement of job cuts within the last 3 weeks following the one made in October 2008. As of November 2008 there is no information on when the job losses will commence nor when they will be implemented by.
Sources
13 November 2008: BBC News
14 November 2008: The Guardian
Citation
Eurofound (2008), Leyland Trucks, Internal restructuring in United Kingdom, factsheet number 67376, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/67376.
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.
