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 86 - Human health activities 86.1 - Hospital activities 86.1 - Hospital activities
700 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
9 March 2009
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
Description
Hospital group Orbis announced on 9 March 2009 that it will cut 700 jobs. Background is a newly built hospital facility which was largely over budget (380m euro) as well as a large internal bureaucracy. On 20 March the unions rejected any compulsory dismissals, referring to an agreement concluded in 2008.
Sources
20 March 2009: Het Financieele Dagblad
Citation
Eurofound (2009), Orbis, Internal restructuring in Netherlands, factsheet number 68625, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://apps.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/68625.