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 10.82 - Manufacture of cocoa, chocolate and sugar confectionery
New offshoring locations
Poland
300 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
25 April 2017
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
30 April 2019
Description
Swiss owned confectioner Nestle has announced that it intends to relocate 300 production jobs from its sites in the UK and move them to its factory in Kargowa, Poland. Nestle has denied that the jobs are being moved as a result of the UK's decision to leave the EU and a spokesperson for the company has stated that the jobs are being moved in order to simplify production. Reports suggest that jobs will be cut from four of the company's UK factories, with the majority of the losses being at the Newcastle and York sites. It is being proposed that 143 jobs will be lost in York, 110 in Newcastle (the company's Fawdon site), 15 in Halifax and seven in Girvan, Ayrshire.
Trade unions Unite and GMB who represent affected workers have reacted angrily to the plans, and have committed to asking Nestle to rethink their plans. A 45 day statutory consultation period will be started and the final plans will be known following the conclusion of the process. Nestle has already stated that it hopes to achieve some reductions through a voluntary redundancy scheme.
Sources
25 April 2017: BBC Website
25 April 2017: The Guardian
Citation
Eurofound (2017), Nestle, Offshoring/Delocalisation in United Kingdom, factsheet number 90978, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/90978.
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.
