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Manufacturing Manufacturing Of Furniture And Other Manufacturing Manufacture Of Furniture 31.09 - Manufacture of other furniture
100 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
26 October 2018
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
Description
The Galician company Noa Madera Creativa located in Vilar do Colo, Fene, has announced a collective dismissal plan affecting 100 employees or 40 percent of its total workforce. The company imputed the redundancies to economic reasons and mainly to the reduction of orders from its main client Inditex.
Trade union representatives have expressed fears that this layoff plan will lead to worse working conditions, similar to those in Grupo Malasa (the owner group), with lower salaries and a higher share of temporary contracts. Employees of Noa Madera Creativa have already organised demonstrations to protect their jobs. Fene City Council has also shown its institutional support to the workers.
Sources
Citation
Eurofound (2018), Noa Madera Creativa, Internal restructuring in Spain, factsheet number 96248, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/96248.
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