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.
Public Administration And Defence Public Administration And Defence; Compulsory Social Security Administration Of The State And The Economic And Social Policy Of The Community 84.11 - General public administration activities
200 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
24 September 2009
Employment effect (start)
1 November 2009
Foreseen end date
30 April 2010
Description
The second municipality in Denmark, Frederikshavn Kommune in nothern Jutland, has announced it has to turn to mass redundancies. The municipality announced on 24-09-2009 that 200 employees will be made redundant due to necessary savings in the budget. The municipality will have to save 15 million Euros. In order to protest against this measure, mentally disabled people and their relatives together with employees in the social psychiatric department went in torchlight procession to the city council meeting.Union members of HK, instead, demonstrated on the city hall square. The two largest companies in Frederikshavn, Danish Crown and MAN Diesel have also fired hundreds of employees during the last three months.
Sources
24 September 2009: Avisen.dk
Citation
Eurofound (2009), Frederikshavn Kommune, Internal restructuring in Denmark, factsheet number 69646, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/69646.
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