Restructuring events
European Restructuring Monitor (ERM)
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.
As announced on 30 October 2014, daily newspaper Weser Kurier is to create 100 jobs by insourcing activities which were outsourced some year ago. Staff of external editorial offices and advertising will rejoin the company by January 2015.
According to the management, the insourcing will make operations easier to manage and helps to re-establish a corporate identity. Trade unions have mixed feelings about the decision as the company will continue to pay lower wages to insourced staff.
Eurofound (2014), Weser Kurier, Business expansion in Germany, factsheet number 77793, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://apps.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/77793.