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Manufacturing Manufacture Of Food And Beverage Manufacture Of Food Products 10.12 - Processing and preserving of poultry meat
180 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
21 November 2019
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
Description
Sada, the company specialised in processing poultry meat and subsidiary of the Nutreco Group, has reached an agreement with workers representatives for the closure of its plant in Lleida (Catalonia), affecting up to 240 employees (180 dismissal with equal compensations of a wrongful termination). 40 employees will be relocated in other plants of the company in Spain (together with relocation aids of €2000 and €600 per month during the first year). According to the company, the closure is due to the loss of a main client - Mercadona, leading supermarket chain in Spain - and sectoral difficulties. However, unions argue that part of the production process was transferred to Sweden, affecting viability of the plant.
This restructuring follows the workforce adjustment of the company in 2017 at its Lominchar (Toledo) plant which affected 158 workers.
Eurofound (2019), Sada, Closure in Spain, factsheet number 99379, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/99379.
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