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Telefónica, Iberia, Glovo… year kicks off with trickle of mass layoffs

Iberia, the national flag carrier, has just announced an ERE (Mass Layoff Procedure) to let go of 996 employees. This is the latest in a long series of announced layoffs that have already dominated headlines in the short time we’ve been in 2026. On March 1st, 2,700 workers left Telefónica, marking the first wave of a mass redundancy plan agreed upon with unions that will eventually affect a total of…


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Labour Ministry wants to toughen conditions for unfair dismissals

The Minister of Labour and Second Deputy Prime Minister, Yolanda Díaz, intends to toughen the conditions for dismissals considered unfair (improcedentes)—which currently generate compensation of 33 days’ salary per year worked, capped at 24 months’ salary—based on the premise that the current regulation of fixed compensation is neither a d for eterrent for companies nor does it sufficiently repair the harm done to affected workers. With this premise, the Ministry…