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Information / Communication Publishing Of Information; Production And Programming Of Audiovisual Publishing Activities 58.13 - Publishing of newspapers
177 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
21 March 2018
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
Description
Grupo Zeta, a Catalan publisher business group, has proposed a layoff to dismiss 177 employees from the four companies that edit, manage, market and deliver El Periódico de Catalunya: 85 jobs in editorial department, 55 in administration areas, 19 in commercial positions and 18 more in delivery and subscriptions positions.
The reasons for the announced dismissals are economic, productive and organisational in order to adapt the companies of the group to the new business model in newspapers. To protest against the company's position, and to demand social measures to alleviate the effects of the dismissals, the workers committee has called a strike of eight days from March 23 to April 6.
Sources
21 March 2018: ElNacional.cat
Citation
Eurofound (2018), El Periódico de Catalunya, Internal restructuring in Spain, factsheet number 93628, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/93628.
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