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 Of Computer, Electrical Electronic And Optical Products Manufacture Of Electrical Equipment 27.51 - Manufacture of electric domestic appliances
New offshoring locations
Czechia
106 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
5 March 2012
Employment effect (start)
1 July 2012
Foreseen end date
1 October 2012
Description
Asko Kodinkone, a manufacturer of domestic appliances, is closing its factory and logistics centre in Lahti and laying off all 106 employees. Parent company Gorenje is moving production to the Czech Republic.
Gorenje acquired the cooker-producing factory only in 2010, but the factory itself has a long history. The company has ended mandatory negotiations with employee representatives and cites competitiveness as the reason for moving production from Finland by September 2012.
A union representative expressed disappointment with the negotiations and savings goals put forward by the company.
Sources
5 March 2012: YLE News
Citation
Eurofound (2012), Asko Kodinkone, Offshoring/Delocalisation in Finland, factsheet number 73446, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/73446.
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.
