The management of Roca Group has informed the works council of the Gavà plant (Barcelona) that it is preparing an Employment Regulation File (ERE) in this factory, without specifying how many of the around 700 factory workers may be affected. although the company has assured that it will have “a very limited scope.”
The cut will affect at least 70 people, since according to Spanish regulations an ERE is activated when the layoffs affect more than 10% of the workforce.
“Roca Group will continue with its industrial activity at the plant and with the plans to consolidate it as a global reference center,” said Roca. The general secretary of the union section of CC.OO. at Roca Sanitario, Juan José Jimenez, explained to EFE that the company has limited itself, for the moment, to pointing out that the layoffs will be for productive reasons.
“The communication has not been a surprise at all, because the plant has been losing production and is obsolete,” said the union leader. CC.OO. has rejected the file and has demanded that management sit down to negotiate alternative measures to layoffs, which guarantee industrial activity and jobs.
The Gavà plant is specialized in the manufacture of porcelain, ceramics, taps and screens and bathroom accessories. In January of this year, Roca Sanitario presented an employment regulation file that affected around 70 workers at the Alcalá de Henares (Madrid) workplace, where cast iron bathtubs were manufactured. The plant has been converted into a logistics warehouse.
This Roca Group company has also reduced jobs in recent times in Navarra, and in Burgos they carried out an ERTE, a temporary employment regulation file, according to the same sources.
