The Castellón-based company Marie Claire has fired 190 of its workers who are already separated from the firm in the textile sector. The company is facing financial problems and will file for bankruptcy at the end of this month of July.
The expulsion of the employees had already been made publicly and they have signed the settlement this Friday, July 14, at the end of the two-week notice period. The workers of the Vilafranca company now have fifteen days of vacation that will begin from the signing of the settlement.
The negotiations carried out at the end of June between the executives of the lingerie brand and the representatives of its employees concluded with an agreement on the payment of workers’ compensation. Specifically, those affected by the layoffs will receive the equivalent of 23 days of compensation with 13 monthly payments.
Almost the entire workforce in erte
The rest of the workers, a minimum workforce of 72 workers in Castellón and 33 in the rest of Spain, will continue in ERTE for three more months with a possible extension of 3 months.
Of them, 5 to 6 employees are on surveillance work and another four in the warehouse to organize the orders that are pending, and the rest of the workforce continues to receive an ERTE “at home”, according to EFE union sources.
Regarding the Marie Claire bankruptcy, it will be presented during the next week or so, while the search for an interested investor continues. Union sources indicate that some investors have appeared with the appearance of vulture funds that are only looking for the brand.
At the same time, negotiations with the administrations continue, now in a transition period due to the change of government in the Valencian Community. The unions demand from the administration an industrialization plan for the Els Ports region, an unpopulated inland area where Marie Claire was founded more than a hundred years ago.
The company has been facing financial difficulties in recent years and has received financing from the Valencian Institute of Finance, which has been used to address the financial situation and settle the accumulated debts with workers and suppliers and to restructure the company to adapt to the market situation. .
In recent years, it has been affected by external factors, including the reduction in the consumption of pantyhose, the logistics and raw materials crisis, and the increase in energy costs. The Think Textil company bought the Castellón firm in April 2021.
