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.
Construction Construction Of Buildings And Infrastructure Engineering Construction Of Buildings 41.2 - Construction of residential and non-residential buildings
140 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
18 April 2012
Employment effect (start)
1 May 2012
Foreseen end date
31 May 2012
Description
On 18 April, the Commercial Court of Nanterre agreed the partial takeover of Litwin (230 engineers and technicians), a company designing and building industrial units. The plant in Mulhouse (30 employees) has been bought by the group Fives, and other sites were taken over by the group Informap Production, specializing in 3D modeling and geographic information systems. Informap Production has taken over 60 employees. As a result, 140 employees are to be dismissed.
Eurofound (2012), Litwin, Merger/Acquisition in France, factsheet number 73499, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/73499.
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.
