UGT warns that the adjustment proposed by Elon Musk would be null in our country as it does not comply with the norm that regulates collective dismissal
The severe downsizing on Twitter carried out last Friday by Elon Musk arrives in Spain. As reported by CC OO and UGT, up to 26 Twitter Spain employees have already received the controversial email in their personal accounts with which the company has communicated the dismissals to those affected.
“It seems that at 5:30 p.m. yesterday, almost all Twitter Spain workers received an email with their dismissal,” the organization’s general secretary, Unai Sordo, published on his account on this social network this Saturday.
Although it is a small office compared to those located in other countries -with a number of workers that would be around 30-, the unions have been willing to start a legal battle against the company’s decision, considering that these dismissals would be void as they are not carried out under the collective dismissal formula.
The general secretary of UGT, Pepe Álvarez, has explained through his Twitter account that, in addition, the national regulation obliges the company to open a consultation period, negotiate for 15 days and communicate its decision to the labor authority. “Not doing it this way makes the layoffs null and void and they will have to reinstate all the workers,” he says.
Álvarez took the opportunity to recall “the need to recover prior administrative authorization in collective dismissals”, which was left pending in the last reform. “It is clear that we have to return to it. People cannot be so unprotected », he insisted.
From the unions they assure that they will denounce these dismissals before the Labor Inspection, making themselves available to the employees to take any type of legal action if they consider it so.
Uncertainty
At the moment, the confusion is absolute among the affected workers. The exact number of layoffs has not even been confirmed, not even at the Spanish headquarters, beyond the information handled by the unions. In addition, the fact that the company closed all its offices on Thursday “to guarantee the safety of each employee” has not exactly helped the transparency of the process either.
However, according to Elon Musk’s plans, the cut would amount to a total of about 3,700 employees worldwide, practically half of the workforce. The richest man in the world justified this decision by the losses of the social network, which he himself has estimated at about 4 million dollars a day.
The objective of the businessman is to put an end to the fall in income that, predictably, will worsen after several large advertisers have decided to withdraw their advertising investment in the social network. Companies such as Volkswagen, General Motors or the food giant General Mills have expressed their concern about the drift of the social network with Elon Musk at the helm, especially due to the impact it may have on content management.
To this is added the increase in costs that the company will have to assume for the payment of compensation and in the face of the foreseeable legal battle that is coming from the employees. From the company they defend that, in the case of the US, Elon Musk has offered compensation for three payrolls which, as they explain, is 50% more than what is legally required in the country.
However, a class action lawsuit has already been filed in the San Francisco general court, as some of those affected consider that the company has broken the law by not giving 60 days notice of this massive dismissal.
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