Restructuring

Restructuring is a term used to describe a wide range of activities which lead to the reorganisation of an enterprise. Restructuring can have serious consequences for the workforce as far as levels of employment and terms and conditions of employment offered to workers are concerned.

Factory workers working on car assembly line

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Beidh feidhm ag Airteagal 10

17 November 2025

Restructuring legislation: 2023–2025 developments

Elin Brattlund

Eurofound’s ERM restructuring legislation database offers an overview of key restructuring-related regulations in the EU Member States and Norway. Its content is continuously updated to reflect any changes made by national legislators in response to, for instance, policy shifts, legal precedents, economic fluctuations or social needs. Recent updates to the database reveal several changes in national legislation that could have significant impacts on workers.

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15 October 2025

Battery manufacturing in the EU: From hope to crisis to hope again?

Elin Brattlundand 2 other authors

Can Europe still achieve its ambitions for battery manufacturing? To answer this, the article looks at data from Eurofound’s European Restructuring Monitor and explores what recent large-scale restructuring events reveal about the state of play in the EU battery sector.

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Páipéar taighde Eurofound

18 September 2025

Athstruchtúrú cuideachtaí agus an dá aistriú: Fianaise ón Monatóir Eorpach ar Athstruchtúrú

Chiara Litardi,

Garance Hingre

Sa pháipéar taighde Eurofound seo, déantar iniúchadh ar phríomhthreochtaí maidir le hathstruchtúrú le blianta beaga anuas, agus leagtar béim ar na cuideachtaí a d'fhógair an caillteanas post is mó agus an gnóthachan post is mó san Aontas. Tógann sé ar anailís ar fhógraí cuideachta a taifeadadh i Monatóir Eorpach um Athstruchtúrú (ERM) Eurofound, mar aon le haicmiú nua ar imeachtaí athstruchtúraithe a bhaineann le hathruithe ar shuíomh na cuideachta.

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Maidir leis an ábhar seo Restructuring

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Buaicphointí le haghaidh Restructuring

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18 September 2025

Páipéar taighde Eurofound

Athstruchtúrú cuideachtaí agus an dá aistriú: Fianaise ón Monatóir Eorpach ar Athstruchtúrú

27 January 2025

Beidh feidhm ag Airteagal 10

Employment in the EU’s automotive sector

In 2024, the automotive sector in the EU came to the fore in public and policy discussions. The focus was on the slowdown in electric vehicle (EV) sales, rising global competition, belated investments in new technologies, and the potential closure of production lines in Europe. A number of European car manufacturers and suppliers announced their intention to make large-scale redundancies and change long-standing collective agreements on job security and wages, while workers raised concerns amid demonstrations and industrial action.This Eurofound briefing note provides more information on the latest EU employment statistics and the emerging data from the European Restructuring Monitor (ERM). It focuses on the core of the sector: NACE C29 (Manufacture of motor vehicles, trailers and semi-trailers) and G45 (Wholesale and retail trade and repair of motor vehicles). A Eurofound study on the impact of the twin transition on the automotive sector is forthcoming in 2025.

25 September 2022

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Going digital: Restructuring trends in retail banking

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. Many banks in the sector have been undergoing serial restructuring since the global financial crisis, and it is one of the few service sectors with stagnant or declining employment. In addition to the technological changes in how services are provided, the sector is also responding to other challenges, including an increased regulatory and compliance burden, competition from fintech, and low interest rates and reduced profitability. The case studies in this report describe examples of recent restructuring in the sector, what motivated the restructuring, how it was managed and how it affected employment, work organisation, and other business and employee outcomes.

10 November 2020

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ERM report 2020: Restructuring across borders

This report has a dual focus. First, it reviews recent restructuring activity in the EU, from January 2019 up to and including the first impacts of the COVID-19 crisis. The second part presents an analysis of transnational restructuring cases – those that affect workers in more than one country. The main source for both analyses is the European Restructuring Monitor events database, which has collected details of over 25,000 large-scale restructurings since it began in 2002, including nearly 2,000 since the beginning of 2019. The review of the data on transnational restructuring is complemented with a summary of case studies based on international relocations of production. The aim is to highlight the types of dispute that arise, how the restructuring is managed by management and the social partners, and what the outcomes are for the workers affected.

Saineolaithe maidir le Restructuring

Soláthraíonn taighdeoirí Eurofound léargas saineolaithe agus is féidir teagmháil a dhéanamh leo le haghaidh ceisteanna nó fiosrúcháin ó na meáin.

Chiara Litardi

Research officer

Employment research

Is oifigeach taighde í Chiara Litardi san aonad Fostaíochta ag Eurofound. Oibríonn sí ar ábhair a bhaineann le hathstruchtúrú, fostaíocht agus cóineasú aníos. Roimhe sin, bhí sí ina hoifigeach tacaíochta taighde freagrach as bainistíocht sonraí, rialú cáilíochta agus anailís ar bhunachair shonraí an Mhonatóra Eorpaigh um Athstruchtúrú. Sula ndeachaigh sí isteach i Eurofound in 2021, d'oibrigh sí mar anailísí sa Bhanc Ceannais Eorpach, ag reáchtáil suirbhéanna uile-limistéar an euro agus ag déanamh taighde ar iompar íocaíochta agus ar chuimsiú airgeadais. Tá céim Mháistir aici san Eacnamaíocht agus san Airgeadas ó Ollscoil LUISS sa Róimh agus céim dhúbailte i dTeicnící Cainníochtúla don Eacnamaíocht agus don Bhainistíocht (QTEM).

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Sara Riso

Senior research manager

Working life research

Sara Riso joined Eurofound in 2006 and is currently a senior research manager in the Working Life unit. She is engaged in research projects focusing on digitalisation and working conditions. Before joining Eurofound, Sara managed research projects for large Brussels-based European associations and networks. Her academic background is in psychology, communication and languages. Her main research interest lies in exploring new workplace stressors arising from increased digitalisation of work, evolving organisational practices, and change management strategies to address the challenges posed by digitalisation in modern working environments.

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