Automotive component supplier Lear Corporation, a North American multinational plant in Walesa, was laid off last Tuesday for chip shortages. The union and administration will meet again next Monday.
According to the Union of Metallurgical and Allied Industries (SIMA), the “layoff” will affect about 400 workers and has a six-month forecast, since went ahead but Radio Vale do Minho…
The company, through HR director Christina Freitas, told O MINHO that it was “no 400,” but declined to disclose how many workers would be affected by the “layoff,” stressing only that it was “not 100%”.
With regard to the length of the layoff, the company says there is no forecast, “analyzed weekly in accordance with client requests.”
“Dismissal is a matter of reducing working hours and will always be coordinated with our client, who is mainly [Grupo] PSA. According to their news, we are going to move forward, ”said Christina Freitas.
When asked about MINHO, the HR director was reluctant to say how much of a reduction in working hours this was, sending additional clarifications via email. MINHO again interviewed the company via email but still hasn’t received a response.
Christina Freitas confirms that the “layoff” is due to the “global crises and raw materials crisis”. “We suffer the consequences,” he stresses.
“Big loss of salary”
In an interview with O MINHO, SIMA General Secretary Jose Antonio Simões said that a new meeting with company representatives is scheduled for Monday. “They will want to submit a new proposal that we do not yet know about,” the union leader notes, adding that “layoffs” means “a big loss of wages for the workers.”
A North American International Automotive Components Company has been established in Walesa since 2009. In 2018 opened new production facilities, investing more than 5 million euros, which implies, according to the news of the time, a “significant” increase in jobs.…
Also recently, as MINHO reported, Bosch in Braga was also fired due to a lack of semiconductors.…
