ZARAGOZA, Jul 27 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The PSA management has communicated to the workers’ representation its intention to start up the second team in October on the night shift in the factory that it has in the Zaragoza municipality of Figueruelas.
Company sources have indicated that given the current pandemic situation of the Covid-19 “it is difficult” to predict the evolution of sales, even in the short term. However, their vehicles “are competing very well” and sales of the Corsa, Crossland X and C3 Aircross models in recent weeks “are very promising” which has led the PSA Group to make this decision.
The car company has detailed that the current night shift work team will work exclusively on the Opel Corsa model and the new team will work on Line 1 – Opel Crossland X and Citroën C3 Aircross.
At the current juncture, “we cannot ensure the continuity of the new work shift in the medium term,” but its implementation is in itself “very important and positive” news, PSA has put forth.
The new work team will be formed, for the most part, by employees with temporary fixed-term contracts, with more or less opening shifts depending on sales requirements.
FULL EMPLOYMENT
The measure involves moving from the current situation of Temporary Employment Regulation File (ERTE) by partial force majeure to a situation of “full employment” of the permanent workforce as of October.
Likewise, it will represent the continuity of many of the temporary contracts that allow for an extension and that ended in the next three months, and the hiring of new employees to form the new work shift, the company said.
“We return to work at full capacity on the two production lines and the three work shifts”, something that “we could hardly imagine in the month of May”, a decision “with very positive effects on sales, employment, plant and the revival of employment in the auxiliary industry “, PSA Groupe has glossed.
“It is good news, but it is convenient not to be triumphalist” since in a situation like the current one, “everything can change absolutely from one day to the next”, the company has clarified.
He added that for everything to go well, “we must assume our individual and collective responsibility, in our working hours, in our social life, during the holidays”, comply with all prevention measures, inside and outside the plant, use mask and restrict social contacts. “It is an ethical obligation to our company, the Community, our families and the thousands of jobs that depend on PSA Zaragoza,” said the automobile group.
Along these lines, it has asked the entire staff for an “additional effort” to take extreme sanitary and hygienic measures in the family, social and work environment.