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Transportation / Storage Warehousing And Support Activities For Transportation, Postal And Courier Activities Postal And Courier Activities 53.20 - Other Postal And Courier Activities
400 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
15 April 2024
Employment effect (start)
21 July 2024
Foreseen end date
Description
Stuart España, a delivery company belonging to the French group Stuart, has decided to conclude without agreement with the workers' representatives an employment redundancy file (ERE), which implies the dismissal of all the company's workers (400 employees, most of them self-employed deliverers). Despite open negotiations following the company's announcement to start an ERE in April 2024, the parties have not reached a consensus on the financial compensations, so the workers' representatives have decided to take the matter to the Courts of Justice to decide on the possible nullity of the procedure.
In this way, the Courts will have to decide whether the redundancy programme did comply with the law. In case the Courts stress that the ERE fulfils the Law, the dismissed employees will receive a severance payment equivalent to 20 days per year worked, with a limit of 12 monthly payments. If not, Stuart employees will have to be rehired and receive the corresponding salaries, although the company will not make any more distributions.
The Labour Inspectorate has previously sanctioned Stuart for employing its delivery drivers as "false self-employed".
Eurofound (2024), Stuart Spain, Closure in Spain, factsheet number 201387, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/201387.
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