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Manufacturing Manufacture For Transport Equipment Manufacture Of Motor Vehicles, Trailers And Semi-Trailers 29.1 - Manufacture of motor vehicles
400 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
28 October 2015
Employment effect (start)
1 December 2015
Foreseen end date
1 June 2016
Description
The car manufacturer company Seat, which belongs to Volkswagen group, will eliminate 400 temporary agency jobs at its plant in Martorell (Barcelona). Thus, the company will not renew the temporary agency jobs that will finish between October 2015 and July 2016, once these workers have completed a year in the company, which is the maximum time allowed to be hired as temporary agency worker. In order to keep the employees the company must hire them as regular employees, something which the company has rejected. The trade unions oppose this measure. According to them, the work foreseen would require at least that 100 of those employees remain in the company. Seat aims to save €100 million annually with this measure and other plans.
Sources
28 October 2015: Cinco Días
Citation
Eurofound (2015), Seat, Internal restructuring in Spain, factsheet number 85285, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/85285.
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