Freixenet announces a collective redundancy plan to lay off 24% of its workforce.

The cava giant Freixenet announced this Thursday a redundancy plan (ERE) to reduce its workforce in Spain "by a maximum of 180 employees", which represents 24% of the group's total employees in the State, according to the report. and ARA has been able to confirm. The company justifies this staff cut "to restructure its production operations," as the drought has pushed the cava sector "into an unprecedented crisis," it states in a statement.

Sources from the workers explain that they were not expecting this decision, which surprised them in the middle of the negotiation of a new agreement. Last year, Freixenet already announced a which was expected to affect up to 615 workers due to the impact of the lack of water on their production. But at that time, because it considered the reasons unproven.



The company ultimately applied for another ERTO using other arguments, which expired at the end of 2024..