2023-08-02 00:20:19
Siemens Gamesa has closed the ERE that it announced last year, although its practical materialization will last until December 2024, when the last of the people involved in the adjustment process leaves the company. If at first it was announced that the surplus would affect 475 employees in Spain, most of them belonging to the central offices, there will only be 231 departures and nine of them will be temporary as they are workers who have taken refuge to an excess
The multinational announced in September the launch of a file to reduce the staff of its offices due to the need to make adjustments and straighten the course of the company, suffering from millions in losses. The negotiation with the unions resulted in a tighter ERE and also free of traumatic measures. A total of 121 employees whose positions had been identified as likely to be eliminated have been relocated to other areas of the company and will therefore remain active. Meanwhile, 139 have accepted compensation to terminate their employment relationship with the group and 83 have agreed to a pre-retirement scheme that will materialize between now and the end of the coming year.
The owner, Siemens Energy, will present the economic results of nine months in the coming days
waiting for the figures
On the other hand, next Monday Siemens Energy, Gamesa’s parent company, will announce its economic results for the first nine months of its fiscal year and everything indicates that they will be very bad. They were already so at the end of the first semester, when the multinational reported losses of 787 million euros in a schizophrenic situation. While the results of the areas linked to conventional energy generation have skyrocketed due to the recovery of investments around the world, the wind division, Gamesa, remains mired in a deep crisis. Even recently, Siemens Energy already anticipated a ‘results alert’ after revealing that technical problems persist in Gamesa’s 5.X wind turbines – the equipment that should be the star of land generation, with the capacity to produce more than 6 megawatts per hour of electricity – and that the losses it will generate are greater than 1,000 million euros. In addition to the repair costs of the approximately 200 units that had already been sold, Siemens Gamesa must bear millions in compensation for the accumulated delays in the deliveries of this wind turbine.
factory sales
Meanwhile, the unknown remains about the sale of eight company factories in Spain, announced in October and on which there has been no definitive resolution, while the company maintains absolute silence on the subject. The operation directly affects the two Basque factories located in the towns of Mungia (Bizkaia) and Asteasu (Gipuzkoa), which are dedicated to the production of gearboxes. Some 320 employees work there.
Siemens Gamesa has also hung the “for sale” sign at the Sigüeiro factories in La Coruña, Lerma, Reinosa, Valencia, San Fernando de Henares and Burgos, where gearbox and generator parts are manufactured. In total, this operation would affect 1,400 employees, of which 1,100 have their workplace in Spain. The remaining 300 are dedicated mainly to repair tasks of this type of equipment in plants in other countries.
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