The management of Stellantis in Figueruelas and a large majority of the works council closed this Friday the agreement for the Temporary Work Regulation File (ERTE), which will be in force in the factory from December 1 and throughout 2025. The company agreed to virtually all of the unions’ demands, making the agreement more flexible and satisfactory for both parties.
During the last weeks of negotiations, The Management and the Committee have refined the details of the ERTE, based on conditions similar to those signed between 2021 and 2023, then due to the lack of components. Today, the company is making this adjustment in the face of the foreseeable drop in vehicle production in the years to come, in the context of the crisis which is affecting the entire automotive industry in Europe, in the midst of its transition to electric vehicles.
SO, The company has guaranteed that salary and extraordinary payments will be supplemented by 80%while neither vacations nor payment of allowances will be affected. Furthermore, he also accepted the early retirement for workers born at the end of 1963 – around fifty – thanks to a replacement contractto which young people would join indefinitely.
Management also gave the approval to reduce individual impact on each worker at 60 dayswhile before going to the ERTE it will be decided to resort to other flexibility measures, such as the nine days of floating vacation.
The agreement was ratified by the UGT, CCOO, OSTA and CGT unions. The Works Council showed its satisfaction with the agreement signed, in particular for having obtained that the workers who join with relief contracts are permanent. “Let’s hope that the productions accompany us and that it is a preventive ERTE, able to assume with the flexibility measures all the drops in production that there may be,” explained its president, Rubén Alonso.
