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.
Grupo Zeta, a Catalan publisher business group, has proposed a layoff to dismiss 177 employees from the four companies that edit, manage, market and deliver El Periódico de Catalunya: 85 jobs in editorial department, 55 in administration areas, 19 in commercial positions and 18 more in delivery and subscriptions positions.
The reasons for the announced dismissals are economic, productive and organisational in order to adapt the companies of the group to the new business model in newspapers. To protest against the company's position, and to demand social measures to alleviate the effects of the dismissals, the workers committee has called a strike of eight days from March 23 to April 6.
Eurofound (2018), El Periódico de Catalunya, Internal restructuring in Spain, factsheet number 93628, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://apps.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/93628.