The general secretary of the UGT, Pepe Álvarez, recalls that “in our country it must be done as a collective dismissal and requires opening a consultation period” The union will denounce the actions of the company acquired by Elon Musk before the labor inspection The company plans to fire 3,700 workers After announcing that he loses four million dollars a day, the union’s general secretary, Pepe Álvarez, has used his Twitter account precisely to denounce that the way in which they have been fired may be inappropriate. Álvarez points out that “in our country, done as a collective dismissal, requires opening a consultation period, negotiating 15 days and communicating it to the labor authority. Failure to do so makes the dismissals null”. In our country it must be done as a collective dismissal, it requires opening a consultation period, negotiating 15 days and communicating it to the labor authority. Failure to do so makes the layoffs NULL.
I open a thread👇1/4 pic.twitter.com/LFrcwDGtgN— Pepe Álvarez (@SG_UGT) November 6, 2022 Therefore, “the company will have to reinstate all those fired,” says Álvarez, who reminds the employees of the multinational that the UGT places itself at your disposal “to challenge collectively”. He also warns that the union “will denounce the company’s actions before the labor inspection.” Álvarez’s thread on Twitter continues by pointing out that “the dismissals of Twitter Spain SL demonstrate the need to recover prior administrative authorization in collective dismissals. It was left pending in the last reform, and it is clear that we have to return to it. People cannot be so unprotected”, he says. His message concludes by recalling that “a social and legal state cannot allow a man, however rich that is, leave people out of work by trampling on their rights. UGT is going to fight it. All the support for the workers of Twitter Global”. million dollars a day and, although he did not specify the total number of layoffs – the American press has estimated them at more than 3,700, which represents more than half of its global workforce. profile of the social network, Musk justified the layoffs by saying that “there is no other choice when the company is losing about four million a day.”