Jet2holidays, the largest tour operator in the United Kingdom, has contacted aviation unions in Spain to communicate its intention to open an Employment Regulation File (ERE) to cut 349 jobs of workers dedicated to baggage check-in, at the airports of Lanzarote, Fuerteventura, Gran Canaria, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Alicante and the Balearic Islands.
Specifically, in Lanzarote it plans to dismiss 95 of its 115 workers, that is, more than 82% of the staff. "These are the workers who are in charge of the external check-in of luggage directly from the hotels," Orlando Robledano, sector head of UGT Canarias for the air sector, explained to La Voz.
"Jet2 has proposed an ERE for 349 workers throughout Spain, 95 in Lanzarote. That is their intention, we are going to try to ensure that no jobs are eliminated if the external check-in service were to cease to exist, we will ask that their jobs be subrogated to the current operators," Robledano anticipates. The negotiation table will be constituted on April 24.
In the rest of the islands, the proposed ERE includes 49 of the 62 employees that the airline has in Fuerteventura, 55 of the 69 workers in Gran Canaria and 100 of the 245 employees it has in Tenerife. In all of Canary Islands there are a total of 299 jobs.
In addition, the ERE proposed by the British airline to the unions includes 19 workers of the 270 it has in the Balearic Islands and 31 of the 234 it employs in Alicante.