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Eurofound has just published the European Restructuring Monitor (ERM) for the first quarter 2010. The report highlights that although restructuring activity in Europe has declined, job losses still outweigh job gains. The number of announced job losses totalled approximately 80,000, which is in stark contrast to the addition of only 30,000 new jobs. Meanwhile, the rate of increase in unemployment in the EU has slowed somewhat but is still rising.

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Eurofound has just launched the Eurofound Restructuring Monitor for the 3rd quarter of 2009. The report records a total of 326 cases of restructuring in the European Union between July 1 and September 30 2009, involving some 119,000 announced job losses and 36,000 announced job gains. Thankfully, the huge surge in restructuring-related job losses that ERM reported in the fourth quarter of 2008 and the first quarter of 2009 shows no sign of returning.

The report is available online.

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The European Restructuring Monitor (ERM), maintained by the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (Eurofound), has just launched the case study “Good Practice in Company Restructuring,” which presents concrete examples of good practice and effective action in relation to restructuring by companies. The study is based on in-depth company case studies carried out in 25 EU Member States and Norway. It highlights cases where large enterprises have made significant efforts to minimize the effects of job losses on their workforce, as well as on the local economy. Actions taken by trade unions and public authorities in this regard have also been explored.

We encourage you to take a look at the full report here.

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A new ERM case study examines multinational companies’ location decisions. Based on new findings from a series of company case studies, the report analyzes the geographic spread of job creation and job destruction among multinational companies across the 25 EU Member States and Norway. The first part of the report presents an overview of the main findings to emerge from the case studies in terms of the nature and extent of the changes that have taken place in the location of production and employment. In the second part, the results of each of the company case studies are outlined in detail. The report is available on the Web.