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 Food And Beverage Manufacture Of Food Products 10 - Manufacture of food products
310 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
28 November 2016
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
Description
Food manufacturer Bakkavor is to create 310 jobs across its operations in Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire. The company which manufactures a range of food products including desserts and ready meals for major supermarket clients will add 100 positions to its desserts manufacturing site in Newark, 60 jobs at its Freshcook site in Spalding and 150 jobs at its pizza production facility in Holbeach. Management positions and production operative roles will be available. The timescale for filling the jobs is not known, though the recruitment process is underway. Bakkavor added a number of roles to its sites earlier in 2016, and demand for its products is currently high.
Sources
28 November 2016: Lincolnshire Live
Citation
Eurofound (2016), Bakkavor, Business expansion in United Kingdom, factsheet number 89292, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/89292.
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.
