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.
Public Administration And Defence Public Administration And Defence; Compulsory Social Security Administration Of The State And The Economic And Social Policy Of The Community 84.1 - Administration of the State and the economic and social policy of the community
100 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
15 April 2019
Employment effect (start)
20 May 2019
Foreseen end date
Description
The Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) has announced that more than 100 jobs will be cut at the UK tax authority HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) in Northern Ireland. HMRC has confirmed that it has made voluntary redundancy offers to staff working in Belfast, Craigavon, Lisburn and Londonderry - offices which are planned to be closed later this year. The union commented in their press release that they continue to negotiate and prevent the closures, but HMRC’s plans remain unchanged. Employees received the Voluntary Redundacy offers on 4th April and the formal consultations between HMRC and the affected staff and the unions have started and are expected to continue until at least 20th May.
Earlier this year a spokesperson for HMRC stated that HMRC announced a 10-year transformation programme to create a tax authority fit for the future in November 2015, by creating 13 new modern regional centres serving every nation and region in the UK. In addition, the spokesperson added that HMRC will not stop supporting both its people in relocating to the regional centres and in trying to find alternative solutions for those that cannot. HMRC is one of the UK’s largest employers, with 60,000 staff.
Sources
15 April 2019: PCS Union (press release) (www.pcs.org.uk)
Eurofound (2019), HMRC, Closure in United Kingdom, factsheet number 97638, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/97638.
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.
