Iberia and the unions have reached an agreement this Monday to move forward with a voluntary redundancy plan (ERO) for 996 people. These employees will leave the company with 80% of their gross salary in case of early retirement and with 35 days per year worked for those under 60 years old, who will be offered incentivized departures. Out of Iberia's 10,700 employees, the ERO affects 996 people: 106 are pilots, 137 are cabin crew (TCP), and 753 are ground staff, including maintenance technicians and corporate services personnel.

The Catalan perfumery chain San Remo has permanently closed its doors. Last Wednesday, the company ordered the closure of all 25 of its stores in Catalonia – 23 in Barcelona, ​​one in Sabadell, and one in Girona – and, according to the CCOO union, as reported in the ARA newspaper and confirmed by the Catalan government's Department of Labor, has filed for a temporary layoff plan (ERTE) due to force majeure. Furthermore, the company has informed its staff that it will file for bankruptcy. As a result, since Wednesday, February 4th, up to 115 employees have been awaiting news from the company and have been instructed not to report to work.

Telefónica has reduced the total number of workers affected by the workforce reduction plan (ERE) to 4,554. This is the final proposal the company has put on the table, according to union estimates, and could lead to an agreement before the Christmas holidays, union sources indicate. In fact, the three largest unions at the company (CCOO, UGT, and Sumados-Fetico) are expected to decide in the coming hours and days whether or not to accept the proposal and its conditions. The same sources indicate that, if successful, an agreement could be reached as early as Monday of next week. Initially, the minimum job cuts across the company's three main businesses in Spain have been set at 3,765 workers. This workforce reduction would affect Telefónica España, Telefónica Móviles, and Telefónica Soluciones. As for Movistar+, the company has reduced the number of affected employees to at least 190, although this figure could still change. In the other businesses, the workforce reduction plan (ERE) has been reduced by 20%: at Global Solutions, 112 people would be laid off from a staff of 638; at Telefónica Innovación Digital, 186 out of a total of 933; and at Telefónica SA, the impact would be on 301 workers, as reported by the unions. In total, the ERE would affect 4,554 workers, 25% fewer employees than the initial proposal.

Telefónica's workforce reduction plan (ERE) will affect at least 647 of the company's employees in Catalonia, according to data obtained by ARA. These are the employees who, meeting the age criteria of the plan, work in the company's three main business units. telecom Telefónica España, Telefónica Móviles, and Telefónica Soluciones are where the bulk of the proposed workforce reduction plan (ERE) is concentrated. In Catalonia, 1,355 people work in these three areas or businesses, meaning the ERE would affect 47% of the total workforce. According to data obtained by ARA, within Telefónica España, 570 employees would fit the age profile of the proposed ERE; in Telefónica Móviles, 73; and in Telefónica Soluciones, 4. Furthermore, a portion of the workforce would be excluded from the plan from the outset: those employees who, despite meeting the age profile, would not be eligible for the ERE because their work is not considered "surplus" by the company, according to reports.

At the end of 2023, the Spanish government decided to reacquire a stake in Telefónica after its privatization in 1997. The operation was completed in 2024, and today SEPI, the Spanish government's investment arm, is the largest shareholder, holding 10% of the share capital, which involved an investment of over €2 million. Now, the public stake faces its first major test: a workforce reduction plan (ERE) affecting 6,088 employees across Telefónica's seven business units, as reported by the UGT union. This represents 24.3% of the total workforce. Until now, only the Minister for Digital Transformation and Public Administration, Óscar López (PSOE), had commented, stating only that the final decision regarding the plan must be made "in agreement with the unions." But this Tuesday, the second vice president and Minister of Labor, Yolanda Díaz (Sumar), completely overturned the decision of the telecom The Catalan Marc Murtra, who is chaired by Díaz, stated: "I don't think it's right [...]. Public money shouldn't be used to lay off anyone, no matter how good the terms of the workforce reduction plan are," Díaz rebuked at a press conference following the cabinet meeting. "We absolutely do not agree that a company that is profitable and has public funding should lay off more than 5,000 workers," the Minister of Labor reiterated.

Telefónica has officially announced its intention to implement a workforce reduction plan (ERE). In a meeting with the main unions held this Monday morning, the company, chaired by Marc Murtra, announced that the ERE will affect seven of Telefónica's businesses, most notably Telefónica España, Telefónica Móviles, and Telefónica Soluciones. These three businesses are joined by Global Solutions, Telefónica Innovación Digital, and Movistar+. UGT, one of the main unions, explained that the company justified the decision on "objective grounds," according to a press release. "We will negotiate in good faith, through dialogue and consensus, but with firmness," UGT stated. The CCOO union also issued a statement. The union will fight to guarantee the "voluntary and universal nature" of the workforce reduction plan (ERE), "adequate" economic and social conditions, and that it be "linked to retirement" and not have "economic disadvantages" for the staff. The unions criticized management for using this as a way to implement "organizational adjustments" within the company.

Telefónica's chairman, Marc Murtra, warned a few months ago that he would maintain "iron financial discipline" at the company in the coming years. For now, it is only a declaration of intent that will likely take shape on November 4th, when the telecom present a new strategic plan. However, for several days now, one of the issues looming over this financial discipline is the possibility of staff cuts through a redundancy plan (ERE), which could affect up to 6,000 employees at various Telefónica subsidiaries, according to a report published this Monday. Expansion.

The workers of the Freixenet Henkell coal mine have decided to extend the strike until June 10. the strike that began a week ago to demand the withdrawal of the employment regulation file (ERE) filed by the company, which should entail the dismissal of approximately 180 workers, 24 percent of the workforce, according to a statement issued Tuesday by the Comisiones Obreras (CCOO) union, the majority union on the group's works council.

Representatives of the Freixenet Henkell company's workforce gathered this Thursday in front of the Catalan Parliament in Barcelona to demand "political action" in response to the redundancy plan (ERE) filed by the company's management last month, which provides for the dismissal of almost a quarter of the workforce. The president of the works council, Antonio Domínguez, has accused Freixenet of engaging in "corporate terrorism" and has stated that they are considering taking the case to court to determine whether it is legal.

Hundreds of people, mostly employees of the Freixenet Henkell company, demonstrated this Wednesday in Sant Sadurní d'Anoia (Alt Penedès) to protest against the redundancy plan (ERE). presented by the company and which includes the dismissal of 180 workers, 24% of the workforce.

The workforce of the multinational cava company Freixenet Henkell began a four-day strike at 10 p.m. on Monday, with 100% participation by Tuesday morning, according to Antonio Domínguez, president of the company's works council, who spoke to ARA. The workers are demonstrating outside the group's headquarters in Sant Sadurní d'Anoia (Alt Penedès) to protest the redundancy plan (ERE) filed by management to cut the workforce by 24 percent. They accuse the company of wanting to "kill cava" by focusing on the production of sparkling wines that require less labor and allow for careless production.

CaixaBank announced on Tuesday that it will reduce by 500 people the total number of layoffs, after the recent merger with Bankia. Thus, the bank will cut 7,791 jobs, compared to the 8,291 proposed at first.

The fashion chain H&M wants to lay off 232 workers and close seven of the nineteen stores it has in Catalonia, according to the ARA. The Swedish group's announcement comes in addition to the Labour Force Adjustment Plan (ERE, in Spanish) of CaixaBank and BBVA this week, which together would affect almost 2,000 Catalan workers.

BBVA is to aiming to carry out a labour force adjustment plan that will affect 3,800 workers throughout the State, equivalent to 16% of the workforce, and will involve the closure of more than half a thousand offices, most of them in Catalonia, as reported by the unions after the meeting held Thursday with the entity.

8.291 employees. This is the number of workers affected by the historic labour force adjustment plan that CaixaBank has announced to cut its workforce after the absorption of Bankia, which became effective at the end of March. The impact of this employment regulation file is shocking: in the financial sector, which has cut almost 100,000 jobs since 2008, there has never been one so large. In the history of Catalonia, only one was worse: in 1993, 9,000 Seat employees lost their jobs. One last piece of information: if the 8,291 workers impacted by the ERE were all in Catalonia, they would be the sixth largest company in Catalonia in terms of employees, a ranking which in 2015 was led by Seat with 13,100, followed by Mercadona with 12,000, the subsidiaries of ACS (10,700) and CaixaBank itself, which had 10,200 workers in Catalonia then, and then BBVA with 8,400 employees. Those affected by the ERE at CaixaBank would be above the next company in the ranking, the Barcelona Metropolitan Transport authority, which had 7,800 workers.