An ERE is an Expediente de Regulación de Empleo or a labor force adjustment plan which is part of the legal procedure in Spain that allows companies to carry out collective layoffs or reduce the working hours of their employees
for economic, technical, organizational or production reasons.
The publishing company Santillana, presented yesterday, October 2, an Employment Regulation Plan (ERE), which could affect 20% of its workforce of 450 individuals throughout Spain. Santillana has 22 work centers in Spain and a large part of its workforce has a long history in the company and is also of advanced age. According to the Equality Plan published on its website, the company employs 258 people over the age of 50.
Yesterday, the company delivered all the documentation of the ERE to the Works Committee, so the legal process of negotiations began. The first meeting will be held on October 10.
Santillana started in 1960 with the publication of manuals, literacy primers and vocational training, as well as children and young adult books.
