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.
Transportation / Storage Land, Water And Air Transportation Land Transport And Transport Via Pipelines 49.20 - Freight rail transport
874 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
20 June 2015
Employment effect (start)
1 July 2015
Foreseen end date
Description
PKP Cargo, Poland’s largest railway freight carrier, will reduce its employment by cutting 250 positions. The voluntary dismissal programme will be in place by the end of June 2015. The company will spend around PLN 19.7 mn (EUR 4.76 mn USD 5.23 mn) to cover expenditures related to this programme. PKP Cargo Group is second largest railway freight carrier in Europe.
Update (20/06/2015): PKP Cargo has announced that 874 employees entered to the voluntary dismissal programme (initially this number was estimated to reach 250). It is estimated that PKP Cargo will spend PLN 64.60mn (EUR 15.47mn USD 17.28mn) on redundancy packages. The sources report that the number of employees willing to leave turned out to be higher than initially expected, and around 320 of applications were rejected.
Sources
11 May 2015: Gazeta Wyborcza
20 June 2015: Wirtualny Nowy Przemysł
1 July 2015: Rzeczpospolita
Citation
Eurofound (2015), PKP Cargo, Internal restructuring in Poland, factsheet number 83638, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/83638.
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.
