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 For Transport Equipment Manufacture Of Other Transport Equipment 30.11 - Building of ships and floating structures
68 - 98 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
26 April 2016
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
Description
Merseyside based shipbuilder Cammell Laird is understood to be cutting 98 jobs from its workforce in Merseyside. The company, which employs 663 at its yard in Birkenhead, has recently completed several orders and future work is uncertain. The Unite union, which represents the Cammell Laird workers, has asked the company to extend the period of time allowed for consultation and has put proposals forward to save jobs through cuts to working hours. It is being reported however that meetings between union representatives and the company which had been scheduled have not gone ahead, and it is expected that the company will shortly proceed to handing out formal notices of redundancy.
Update 23-05-2016: Despite trade union attempts to save jobs, Cammell Laird has confirmed that it intends to press ahead with 68 compulsory redundancies at its site in Birkenhead. A joint ballot of GMB and Unite members rejected the union's proposal to take industrial action over the job losses.
Sources
27 April 2016: Insider Media
23 May 2016: Insider Media
24 May 2016: Liverpool Echo
Citation
Eurofound (2016), Cammell Laird, Internal restructuring in United Kingdom, factsheet number 87386, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/87386.
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