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.
Hotel / Restaurants Accommodation And Food Service Activities Food And Beverage Service Activities 56.1 - Restaurants and mobile food service activities
12,000 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
26 January 2009
Employment effect (start)
1 January 2009
Foreseen end date
31 December 2009
Description
According to Financial Times Deutschland (FTD), restaurant giant McDonald's profits from the economic crisis and plans to create 12,000 jobs with the opening of 240 new sites across Europe. Denis Hennequin, head of Mc Donald's Europe, stated in an interview that the new sites will be set up in Spain, France, Italy, Russia and Poland. Each of the sites is to employ about 50 workers.
Sources
26 January 2009: Financial Times Deutschland
Citation
Eurofound (2009), McDonald's, Business expansion in European Union, factsheet number 67954, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/67954.
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.
