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Transportation / Storage Warehousing And Support Activities For Transportation, Postal And Courier Activities Postal And Courier Activities 53.2 - Other postal and courier activities
450 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
4 July 2013
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
Description
The postal operator Unipost will apply for a redundancy procedure affecting 300 employees of its Spanish staff (12% of its entire workforce in Spain).
This restructuring results in a reduction by 40% from the initial proposal of dismissals. In addition, the company will cut wages by 10%. Currently, the measure is being discussed with the mediation of the Ministry of Employment.
Updated 22-07-2013: Unipost has finally presented a Redundancy Procedure affecting 450 employees (18% of its entire workforce). Moreover, the company will cut wages by 9.5%. According to the union CCOO, the company has rejected the proposal of the mediator, who recommended 400 dismissals.
The union also states that the company will unilaterally convert full-time contracts into part-time contracts and will apply geographical mobility schemes.
Sources
22 July 2013: Europapress
4 July 2013: Expansión
Citation
Eurofound (2013), Unipost, Internal restructuring in Spain, factsheet number 75635, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/75635.
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