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.
Manufacturing Other manufacturing Other manufacturing 32.50 - Manufacture of medical and dental instruments and supplies
173 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
29 May 2013
Employment effect (start)
29 May 2013
Foreseen end date
1 June 2013
Description
German wheelchair producer Meyra will cut 149 jobs in Kalletal (North Rhine-Westphalia). The company filed for insolvency in March and currently tries to find an investor. Talks with worker representatives have been announced. In total, Meyra employs 413 people.
UPDATE: As announced in September 2013, Meyra will be acquired by Polish Medort-Group. The workforce will be reduced to 240, so that total work cuts sum up to 173.
Sources
29 May 2013: Mindener Tageblatt (online)
26 September 2013: Mindener Tageblatt (online)
Citation
Eurofound (2013), Meyra, Merger/Acquisition in Germany, factsheet number 75471, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://apps.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/75471.
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.
