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.
The US-Dutch IT company Booking.com which according to media investigations employs about 17,000 workers worldwide, will merge its two sites in Berlin and cut about 345 out of a total of 816 jobs in Berlin. The information was released by magazine Gründerszene based on information from a Dutch nerwspaper and the United Services Union (Vereinte Dienstleistungsgewerkschaft, ver.di). Ver.di relates the move to ongoing legal disputes with the works council on wages and working conditions; the trade union also says that Booking.com does not comply with the Works Constitution as it has not consulted the works council on the planned closure .
Eurofound (2018), Booking.com, Internal restructuring in Germany, factsheet number 96318, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://apps.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/96318.