Nissan will lay off 211 workers, 37% of its workforce in Catalonia

BarcelonaNissan specifies what will be the impact of the employment regulation file (ERE) that it will deploy in Catalonia. Specifically, as confirmed to ARA by union sources, the Japanese firm will dismiss 211 workers at its centers in the Zona Franca and El Prat, where it has two plants: the parts center and the flexible areas center. Currently, Nissan employs 569 people in Catalonia. The company alleged two weeks ago that the dismissals were due to organizational and productive causes.

Specifically, the vast majority of those affected will be at the El Prat parts plant with 110 dismissals out of its 122 workers. Also included in the file are the NTC technical center in the Zona Franca, where management has proposed cutting 86 jobs, and the functional areas center in El Prat, with 15 dismissals. In both cases, an impact of around 20% of the total employees is expected. The company's management detailed these impacts in the meeting held this Monday with union representatives, although they did not provide further details on the possible reasons.

Given the number of affected employees, labor representatives have already stated that they will "frontally" reject the dismissals proposed for the company and they are moving forward with studying the technical report and the justification memorandum of the procedure in which the company alleges economic, productive, and organizational causes to justify the dismissals. For now, the next step will take place this Thursday morning, when the company and unions are summoned to a mediation at the Department of Enterprise and Labor.