Employment suspension to affect all of Olazagutía’s employees

The temporary employment suspension (ERTE) raised by Cementos Portland for its six plants in Spain is expected to affect the entire workforce of the Olazagutía plant in Navarra.

A negotiation process has now started between the company’s management and the representatives of the 110 employees at the works to minimise the impact of the ERTE.

Javier Lecumberri of the general workers union, UGT, said that the negotiation process is "very complex" which will address "both the conditions of the workers and how to carry out that temporary suspension", but remarked that at all times the union will try to "negotiate the best economic conditions for the employees."