Type
Internal restructuring
Country
Spain
Region
Location of affected unit(s)
Sector
Manufacturing
Manufacture Of Tobacco Products
Manufacture Of Tobacco Products
12 - Manufacture of tobacco products

285 jobs
Number of planned job losses
Job loss
Announcement Date
10 April 2006
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
31 August 2007

Description

Altadis, multinational producer of tobacco products, is planning to transfer the employees that it has got in Spain to other centres of the company and to offer early retirement. This reorganisation will also involve the closure of the production centre located in Tres Cantos (Madrid). The company has not announced yet what centres will some employees move to and whether these will be within or outside Spain.

These measures, which also include 239 jobs lost in France, come on top of the industrial restructuring plan currently being implemented in Spain. Altadis has 30 production, service and logistics centres in Spain.

Altadis presented on 6 June 2006 its redundancies procedure in which it has foreseen to dismiss 285 employees instead of the 233 announced previously. The employees over 52 years old will be offered voluntary redundancies that will lead to early retirement and other employees will be offered to move within the company.


Sources

  • 7 June 2006: Expansión
  • 10 April 2006: El País

Citation

Eurofound (2006), Altadis, Internal restructuring in Spain, factsheet number 63357, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/63357.