a collective dismissal ″ to protect the group ″
The Saint-Gobain group has 800 workers and has put forward a collective redundancy process for 130 employees at the car glass processing plant in Loures …
This Thursday, the General Director of the factory, Miguel Sousa, was heard in the parliamentary labor commission and gave out loud guarantees of placement in new jobs for most of the redundant workers.
With the collective dismissal process underway in Saint-Gobain Sekurit Portugal reveals that it has hired a company for hiring workers to, over the next six months, try to look for placements for the unemployed.
The general director of Saint-Gobain Sekurit Portugal, Miguel Sousa, adds that a total of 97 jobs are already secured, so workers accept them.
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“There are 36 jobs on the table in companies of the Saint-Gobain group in Portugal, 51 jobs in companies in the region of Loures and Lisbon and 10 jobs in companies of the group in Spain”, he reveals to the deputies.
6 people can also be relocated to the warehouse in Palmela.
Miguel Sousa guarantees that this dismissal is a unique case and can avoid the contamination of the other 10 companies of the group in Portugal.
“There is no question of any risk of this situation spreading to other group companies in Portugal and investments in Portugal will continue to be made. Saint-Gobain wants to continue in Portugal but has to take this type of decision in companies that bring it problems and that can affect other businesses “, defends Miguel Sousa.
According to the general director of Saint-Gobain Sekurit Portugal, “In the last three years, between 2018 and 2020, the company accumulated losses of 8.5 million euros, and this year (2021) until the end of the month the company has already accumulated 3.1 million euros of losses”.
Thus, “the main reason for the closure of the company is its lack of profitability and its inability to recover from this situation in the face of the problem of the automobile sector at an international level”, he justifies