Spain: Michelin’s management and unions sign an agreement avoiding job cuts

The inter-center works council and the management of Michelin Spain signed an "exceptional framework agreement 2009" to cope with the bad economic prospects and adapt production to market needs while avoiding appeal to dismissals. (Ref. 080987)
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Measures. The basic principles of this agreement are: a) its exceptional character and b) its deadline at the end of 2009. It will only affect trades directly affected by the sales drop caused by the crisis in the automotive industry. The intervention modalities mostly plan to extend the requirements to access the bank of flexible hours: 1/ for trades which already had a flexibility margin, the bank of hours will go from 120 to 240 hours, i.e. from 15 to 30 days. 2/ for trades which didn’t appe

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