MasOrange and the unions extended by one week the voluntary registration period for the labor regulation file (ERE) of 650 people that the company had launched and which ended this Thursday, after having obtained only 65.23 % of memberships. A total of 424 workers registered. The rest of the team will have until November 13 to fill the quota. Otherwise, the company would carry out forced layoffs.
Of the 424 voluntary registrations for the ERE, 147 correspond to early retirements and 277 to incentive dismissals, as detailed by union sources. Additionally, half of the registrants signed up in the last two days.
Last mid-October, MasOrange – a company resulting from the merger of Orange and MásMóvil – reached the agreement with the UGT and Fetico for this collective dismissal, which did not have the support of CCOO, which rejected the agreed terms. In this context, the company communicated its intention to execute this ERE on September 3, with an initial proposal of a maximum of 795 departures after detecting “organizational duplications” due to the integration of Orange personnel and from MásMóvil.
The conditions of the ERE
The conditions agreed in the ERE include compensation of between 34 and 47 days per year worked with a limit of 24 monthly payments for people who join voluntarily. Furthermore, employees with less than eight years of seniority in the company and who come forward to leave voluntarily will receive a bonus of 3,000 euros, a figure which increases to 8,000 euros for employees with seniority of between nine and 12 years and which increases to 15,000 euros for those who have been in the company for more than 12 years. Likewise, the compensation ceiling will be 300,000 euros, compared to 250,000 euros that the company had proposed in its previous proposal.
The agreement reached also provides that workers aged 56 to 57 with seniority in the company equal to or greater than nine years will be able to benefit from the early retirement plan, while, in the case of people aged 58 to 62 years, seniority must be equal to or greater than five years. As for income from the early retirement plan, it represents 80% of the regulatory salary.
Another element that appears in the agreement is the maintenance of health insurance for two years for employees affected by the ERE who benefit from it, while, in the event of early retirement, the maintenance of health insurance (s (they benefit from this benefit) will be up to 63 years old. Added to this, among other things, is a guarantee of employment until June 30, 2026, even if this question is subject to “the absence of serious economic or structural reasons” which could motivate a new process of collective dismissal in the ‘business.
For those who forcefully leave the company, compensation will be between 33 and 45 days, with a limit of 24 monthly payments.
