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.
Utilities Electricity, Gas, Steam And Air Conditioning Supply Electricity, Gas, Steam And Air Conditioning Supply 35.2 - Manufacture of gas; distribution of gaseous fuels through mains
500 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
12 May 2010
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
10 May 2013
Description
Ireland's state gas company Bord Gáis plans to create 500 new jobs over the next three years. The gas company said the opening of the 445 MW Whitegate Power Station in County Cork and its acquisition of SWS, one of the largest wind generators in the country, represented major milestones in its expansion. Of the 500 jobs, 250 will be in home services, including installation, energy saving for homes and office jobs, with the other 250 in the construction of the wind farms.
Eurofound (2010), Bord Gais, Business expansion in Ireland, factsheet number 69988, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/69988.
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.
