Difficulties

The timing: In mass redundancy situation not everybody is fully informed at the same time. Which could be be a difficult situation especially for workers.

How to anticipate restructuring? (Lancashire) How to encourage enterprises to give more information  about restructuring at an earlier stage?

Answers:

- Employment observatories: Provide labour market trends.

The European Monitoring Center on Changes is one of the observatories of Eurofound providing up-to-date news and analysis on company restructuring in Europe

- In Italy, enterprises changes are immediately transcribe in an electronic database. This database is constantly available to training operators so they are able to give career advices.

-Employment units could be in charge of the anticipation of changes. (Sardinia Region)