The management of Ford Spain has finalized this Friday the economic proposal for the ERE that raises a total of 1,144 employees. The proposal contemplates severance pay, improved with up to 20,000 gross euros more for those who sign up for the plan before June 30; as well as an early retirement plan that includes 80% of the regulatory net salary for employees between 55 and 56 years of age and 85% for those who are 57 years of age or older.
In a detailed program to which this medium has had access, it is observed that the early retirement program, which days ago had been the great negotiation of the unions, is aimed at employees between 63 and 55 years of age, except those who are already linked to a contract of access to partial retirement. According to union estimates there are some 600 employees over the age of 55, although the ERE is planned for almost double.
Since the employees who will be eligible for early retirement will be those born between January 1, 1960 and January 1, 1968, the company has also broken down a proposal for layoffs with compensation that can be extended. And it is that one of the points includes that for all registrations prior to June 30, 2023 there will be an improvement of 20,000 gross additional compensation to the corresponding amount, which varies according to age.
Employees up to 54 years of age will have compensation equivalent to 45 days per year worked with a maximum of 42 monthly payments; meanwhile, those between 55 and 63 years old will have compensation according to the specific tables of the agreement.
As the Valencian STM-Intersindical union has assessed, the proposed agreement improves "significantly the previous ERE, since they do not close at the age of 55, as originally requested", for which they point out that the number of workers who are can point to the early retirement plan increases.
In this sense, we need to know with this new age group, how much would be the impact on the workforce because it will significantly increase the amount, which you told us at the beginning and well, we have asked you for a time,
