Adidas lays off 300 workers in Maia and takes services outside Portugal | Companies
Adidas will lay off 300 employees in Maia due to “changes in the company’s structure”, which will move organizational services outside Portugal, confirmed this Monday the multinational.
Questioned by Lusa about complaints of a collective denial at “Global Business Services Porto – GBS Porto”, located since 2009 in the Maia Science and Technology Park (TecMaia), Porto district, Adidas, in writing, confirmed that “about 300 positions are affected by the changes” that the company is carrying out in Portugal.
“We can confirm that there will be changes in the organizational structure in Porto. In the future, responsibilities will be created in the structure of Porto, in a second moment, responsibilities will be created in the structure of Porto”, it reads.
Adidas, as announced changes will occur until the summer of 2023, but warns that “Porto will continue to play an important role in the company”.
In its response, that multinational indicates that it has already contacted the affected employees and regrets “the impact that the decision may have on employees”.
“Adidas is trying to find fair solutions for all affected employees in personal conversations, with priority being able to download to another cargo in Porto”, reads the text.
PCP questions Government
Following the news about redundancies, the PCP questioned the Government about the support received for the company and that the counterparts were guaranteed to the State.
In two questions addressed to the ministers of Labor and Economy, the communist parliamentary bench questioned Ana Mendes Godinho and António Costa Silva about workers “may be affected” by the decision of the Adidas subsidiary in Maia to fire several workers.
“They are suspected of, suspected, multinational, without anything predicting it, they are lost by a person, or PCP.
A leaves a “profoundly negative social trail”, which is condemned by the communist decisions in the Assembly of the Republic.
The PCP also asks the ministers that “public support, national and community, received the company and the counterparts guaranteed by the Portuguese Government, namely regarding the maintenance of jobs”.
Alfredo Maia, who subscribes as two questions, “measures have taken or intends to take” António Costa’s executive “for the defense of jobs” and for the other workers as well.