Telefónica’s exit plan will be executed through an employment regulation file (ERE), as confirmed by the unions, to which the volume of staff that will be affected by this measure, designed in a principle so that up to 5,000 workers can benefit from it.
In this context, Telefónica has informed the unions that it will begin to develop the legal process for the implementation of this workforce reduction, which involves convening the inter-center committees of Telefónica de España, Telefónica Soluciones and Telefónica Móviles, as well as notifying the Ministry of Labor, among other issues.
Union sources consulted by Europa Press have indicated that the company has justified the “functional surplus” of workers in accordance with the modification of the company’s services, the completion of the deployment of fiber optics to the home (FTTH), the closure of the copper and other elements, such as process automation.
In this sense, the ERE resolution process has a period of one month from the constitution of the negotiation tables with Telefónica de España, Telefónica Móviles and Telefónica Soluciones.
“The details and the negotiation will correspond to the tables that each of the intercenter committees must establish and will accommodate the legal deadlines set for this,” UGT explained in a statement.
“UGT, in light of this, states that any exit plan will be linked to the signing of a new agreement of related companies with a minimum duration of three years that protects the staff and their working and economic conditions. All of this without prejudice to the fact that the people who may be affected by the aforementioned ERE have guarantees and conditions similar to previous exit plans,” he added.
Regarding the ERE figures, UGT has clarified that, “legally”, this data can only be given to the negotiation tables of each of the files.
“Today, Monday, the meetings with the workers’ representatives continued for the negotiation of the III agreement of related companies. Likewise, the company has been informed of the intention to carry out a collective dismissal in Telefónica de España, Telefónica Móviles and Telefónica Solutions”, the operator has indicated for its part.
NEW COLLECTIVE AGREEMENT
Regarding the new collective agreement of related companies – the current one is an extension of the previous one and expires on December 31 -, the negotiations, in which UGT, CCOO and Sumados-Fetico participate, will resume on November 30.
“For UGT it is necessary that the company, before undertaking a new workforce adjustment, commits to the internalization of services and ‘reskilling’ in order to give the workforce employability,” said UGT.
Furthermore, he has indicated that he conceives the debate and confrontation of ideas as an essential part of collective bargaining, however, and in the absence of knowing the details of the proposals made by the company, he advances that the positions of both parties “are far apart.” .
Likewise, UGT has marked its “red lines”, among which the salary structure, the guarantee regime or the salary review clause that allows the staff to maintain purchasing power stands out.
In addition, it is committed to including improvements such as a dental reimbursement policy for the entire workforce, the expansion of social benefits, the increase and improvement of teleworking, relocation, an improvement and extension of permits, 35-hour work weeks and enhancing the social funds, among other aspects.
On the other hand, UGT has requested the suspension of the reorganization proposed by Telefónica for its customer service – the centerpiece of which is telephone 1004 – and also of the movements caused by the closure of 108 “low occupancy” buildings. .
