The administration of the agency met this Tuesday with the works council, to tell them of their intention to begin the session interval beginning subsequent Monday.
The firm, which at the moment has a workforce of 214 folks, has a Temporary Employment Regulation File (ERTE) lively till subsequent July for 130 staff on the plant situated in Vilafranca, the place some 90 at the moment work. folks in manufacturing
From the corporate they’ve transferred to the representatives of the employees that the viability of the corporate with the present employees, which additionally has about 70 folks between technicians and administrative employees in Castellón and Valencia, is “fairly compromised”, a state of affairs that the corporate It has dragged on “for a while,” based on the unions.
Consultation interval
The staff’ representatives look forward to the session interval to open subsequent Monday and, from there, see the explanatory reminiscence and the technical reviews to search out out “the intentions of the corporate.”
In any case, they’ve indicated that at the moment they have no idea if the corporate’s intention is to launch a termination Employment Regulation File (ERE). “Until then, we won’t have any extra information, though we already know what all of the indications are,” they specified.
The mayoress of Vilafranca requires an “pressing” resolution to keep away from the closure
For her half, the mayoress of Vilafranca, Silvia Colom, has expressed the necessity to discover a monetary resolution that stops the closure of the corporate and maintains the utmost variety of jobs. To do that, she has known as on the administration of the corporate and the administrations to work “urgently” on that goal.
The municipal supervisor has careworn that the monetary help acquired by the Valencian Institute of Finance (IVF) “made it attainable to keep up the exercise of the corporate.”
Colom has proven himself to pay attention to “the difficulties which have occurred in recent times each as a result of pandemic and the rise in power prices”.
In any case, he has claimed the necessity to “proceed combating” to “preserve this important exercise alive” for Villafranca and the area.
Inditex as important buyer
Marie Claire was acquired in April 2021 by the corporate Think Textil, whose important shopper is Inditex, in an operation endorsed by the Valencian Institute of Finance (IVF) by way of a financing plan on account of the battle in opposition to depopulation .
On the opposite hand, in June of final yr, the corporate formalized with the Generalitat a financing operation value 12 million euros authorized inside the framework of the Valencian Resilience Fund for strategic corporations affected by the disaster.
Precisely, the individual in control of CCOO PV within the firm, José María Gutiérrez, has highlighted this “essential” operation that “appeared to ensure the viability” of the corporate, though he has indicated that after the pandemic he suffered the “similar downside of little Workload”. “The financial injection of the Generalitat got here in useful and it appeared that the corporate was going to be viable, but it surely has had very unhealthy luck as a result of covid difficulty, we now have not raised our heads,” he argued.
“Historical firm within the area”
In any case, he has warned of the “drama” that the closure of this “historic firm within the area” would imply, the place it’s “a supply of earnings for a reasonably essential inhabitants.” “If this manufacturing facility is eliminated, the area will probably be significantly affected,” he indicated.
“Where the trade disappears, depopulation seems, and we do not know the way that may be changed,” he remarked, whereas stressing that the priority at the moment within the workforce is “essential” after “ten years of issues”. “The firm turned a frontrunner with nearly 1,000 staff, however at the moment it doesn’t even attain 300. Somehow we may come to think about this unhappy finish that we are not looking for,” he defined.
Marie Claire is an organization from Castellón based in 1907, with a protracted custom and roots within the Valencian Community, particularly within the inside areas of Castellón. It started its exercise greater than 100 years in the past, dedicating itself from its origins to the manufacture and sale of stockings, an exercise that through the years has diversified to additionally produce different textile merchandise.
Marie Claire is likely one of the important engines of exercise within the areas of La Plana Alta and Els Ports. The firm from Castellón concentrates a excessive share of financial exercise and employment in these areas, which is why it’s thought of strategic for the Valencian economic system.
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