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Administrative Services Travel Agency, Tour Operator And Other Reservation Service And Related Activities Travel Agency And Tour Operator Activities 79.11 - Travel agency activities
418 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
3 September 2013
Employment effect (start)
1 October 2013
Foreseen end date
Description
The tourism group Globalia will apply for a redundancy procedure affecting 500 employees. Dismissals will affect employees in the travel agencies belonging to the companies Halcón Viajes and Ecuador. Between 130 and 150 travel agencies offices will be closed, most of them belonging to Halcón Viajes. The measure is due to a drop in the turnover equal to 10% during 2012 and 25% in 2011. Unions foresee that the redundancy procedure will start to be implemented in October 2013.
Updated 21-10-2013
Globalia has achieved an agreement with the unions on the redundancy procedure. Dismissals have been reduced to 418. 348 workers will be dismissed in Halcón Viajes and 70 in Viajes Ecuador. Dismissed workers will receive a compensation equal to 30 days per year worked up to a maximum of 35,000eur (Halcón Viajes) and 37,000 (Viajes Ecuador) respectively.
Sources
21 October 2013: Europapress
3 September 2013: Cinco Días
Citation
Eurofound (2013), Globalia, Internal restructuring in Spain, factsheet number 75822, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/75822.
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