Workers at Quality Espresso are holding new protests in Barcelona’s Zona Franca over a redundancy plan affecting the company’s production line.
The plan is an Expediente de Regulación de Empleo, or ERE, the formal Spanish process used for collective redundancies, contract suspensions, or reduced hours. Employees are asking the company to withdraw the proposal and keep jobs in place at the Barcelona site.
Zona Franca is one of Barcelona’s main industrial areas, so any job cuts there are being watched closely by workers and local industry. The protests are aimed at putting pressure on management to stop the redundancy process.
Under Spanish labour rules, an ERE must be justified by economic, technical, organisational, or production reasons, and it involves talks with employee representatives. For readers following wider labour issues in the city, see our community coverage and sport coverage.
Originally published by Europa Press Barcelona. Read the original report. For the company’s own information, see the Quality Espresso website.
