President of Telefonica, mark murtra, He defended the need for the company to implement “Sacrifices” To be able to develop its strategic plan and confront the upcoming technological tsunami. He did so in a veiled reference to a file … Employment Regulation (ERE) which the company proposed to reject 6,088 workersMore than 30% of the group’s workforce is in Spain.
The executive, who participated in the CEDE Executive Conference in Zaragoza, insisted on the necessity of implementing these measures, in order painful Whatever it may be, after the second vice president, Yolanda Díaz, this week created a rift in the government due to this restructuring of the business, when the state is one of the main shareholders of the operator, with 10% of the capital. He stressed that these are “painful” procedures, but they cannot be postponed.
Mortra recalled the case of other companies that did not anticipate the crisis that could destroy them, as happened to Kodak with cameras. “We can’t go down this road” I have anticipated a defense of the entire strategy that will unfold in the coming years from the perspective of the company and its investments as well as the changing size of the workforce.
This week Telefónica fully revealed the huge ERE numbers after setting up the seven proposed negotiating tables. In total, the operator proposes to lay off 6,088 workers, representing 24.3% of employees in Spain and 35.3% of the workforce in the affected companies. The affected companies are seven: Telefónica de España, Telefónica Móviles, Telefónica Soluciones, Telefónica SA, Telefónica Global Solutions, Telefónica Innovación Digital, and Movistar+. Therefore, they will not prove it in one proceeding, but rather in seven separate actions, even though all the terms will be negotiated “in fact” together.
However, the Minister Labor has distanced itself from the rest of the executive He notes that the fact that “a for-profit, publicly owned company would decide to fire such a large number of employees is inappropriate,” as the Cabinet noted on Tuesday. His position contradicts the positions of his colleagues in the government, who spoke about this measure, but in a more conciliatory tone. minister digital transformation, “The government’s position will be very clear, which is that this always happens with the consent of the unions,” Oscar Lopez pointed out a few weeks ago. And also a minister economyYesterday, November 24, Carlos Cuerbo spoke in a similar tone.