2024-05-04 16:33:16
Freixenet Group and the union organizations have agreed to start a regime of reducing working hours of between 20% and 50% for economic, technical and organizational or production reasons (ERTE ETOP) “in the face of the lack of grapes and wine due to the drought that Catalonia suffers.” This file will affect the employees of Freixenet and Segura Viudas from May 13 and “is expected to last until December 31 of this year, as reported today by the group in a statement. Freixenet has indicated that, in addition to the subsidy that those affected receive from the Public Administration, “they will be compensated with aid with complementary aid.”
In parallel, it has also been agreed to protect certain groups and guarantee vacations and extra pay. The company states that “the intensity of the measure will be adapted according to the time of year and the effects derived from the drought.” For its part, in another statement, the Federation of Industry, Construction and Agriculture of UGT /UGT FICA) has positively valued the agreement reached this Saturday because, among other points, “it guarantees the full collection of extraordinary payments as well as the full accrual of the vacations of the vacations.” And he highlights that “a supplement to the unemployment benefit from the company that will be around 95% of the salary is guaranteed”, regardless of the effects that workers may have depending on the productive needs of each moment.
In another statement, the USOC union has also supported the measure, “especially taking into account the speed and immediacy that the situation required.” In his opinion, the ERTE will affect the entire workforce except for “partial retirees and people with reduced working hours, assuming a reduction in working hours, assuming a reduction in working hours between 20% and 50%.” For USOC, the agreement implies “economic and social improvements, and is in the same line as the one applied during the covid pandemic in 2020.
The Department of Business and Labor of the Generalitat initially rejected the ERTE presented by Freixenet, does not consider drought as force majeure, and argued that the company could negotiate an ordinary ERTE with the unions for economic, technical, organizational and productive reasons. The group responded that the lack of grapes and base wine caused by the drought forced them to request an ERTE ETOP.
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