25% of its staff wants to leave, according to La Información

The electrical marketing company Holaluz is not going through the best of times, not even in terms of your financial statusas well as his relationship with the staff, who are currently immersed in an indefinite strike due to the substantial change in their working conditions. Among those changes: eliminating teleworking.

As a consequence of the loss of this type of work and other acquired social benefits, around the 25% of the workforce has decided not to accept the new conditions imposed by the energy company and terminate your contract, as published The Information.

25% of the workforce does not accept the changes

The measure involves the departure of some 52 Holaluz workers until January 31, the deadline for employees to communicate their refusal to accept the substantial change in their working conditions. Union sources consulted by The Information They point out that 14 of those employees have already formalized their departure from the company.

These same sources assured that the number of applicants for termination of their contract may rise to 70 workers, which would represent 30% of the energy marketer’s workforce.

The Works Council itself would have been affected by this reduction in personnel, going from seven representatives to only three members, maintaining the union representation of UGT and CGT that called for the indefinite strike.

Terminate the contract in the event of a substantial change

Given the lack of agreement in the negotiation of working conditions and the in-person working day model that Holaluz proposed to its staff in September 2024, the company presented a Substantial Modification of Working Conditions (MSCT) for your entire workforce.

This proposal implies acceptance by the company that there will be a substantial change in the working conditions under which its employees were hired and, therefore, opens the door to the application of the article 41 of the Workers’ Statute.

Section 3 of this article specifies that “if the worker is harmed by the substantial modification, he will have the right to terminate his contract and receive compensation of twenty days’ salary per year of service, prorating by month the periods less than one year and with a maximum of nine months.” This means that those workers who decide not to accept the new Holaluz conditions will be able to terminate your contract and receive compensation for his departure.

After suffering a serious financial setback that had the energy marketer on the verge of bankruptcy for much of 2024, it finally obtained financial support of Icosium Investment which, with a capital injection of 22 million euros, managed to keep the company afloat. According to sources of The Informationall the changes in working conditions announced, including the elimination of teleworking, respond to an effort to adjust expenses estimated at 250,300 euros in 2024.

Teleworking was a red line

According to what was published by The Informationthe company considered that, after an internal evaluation, teleworking was considered “a measure incompatible with the negative situation in which the company finds itself” and, therefore, it opted for a 100% in-person model. This change led to the call for an indefinite strike starting January 14.

According to company sources asked by Xataka, “of 227 employees, the strike has been monitored by 37 people (16% of the workers) who have participated at some point in the strike. Of the total workers, 2% (five employees have supported 100% of the hours during the first week). Analyzing the total hours of the strike (taking into account that the call is two days per week, with four hours each, adding up to a total of eight hours per week), 130.25 strike hours have been recorded out of a total of 1,816 possible hours (227 workers x 8 hours). This represents 7.2% compliance with the hours called for the strike.

For their part, union sources confirm that, in the absence of an agreement, as of January 28, the strike will be indefinite for the entire day, and not for hours as has happened until now.

Holaluz assures that the company’s operational situation is completely normal and confirms that they have opened new job offers to cover the sick leave of those who have not accepted the substantial modification of their working conditions. “It has been a very hard year and returning to the office is essential to recover the cohesion of the team and recover the enthusiasm. After all the difficulties, we have to row and form a team together,” sources close to Holaluz assure.

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