Banco Santander will manage early retirement requests in Spain towards the end of the year

MADRID, 25 Oct.

Banco Santander will manage early retirement requests in Spain towards the end of the year

MADRID, 25 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) -

Banco Santander will manage towards the end of the year some of the requests received from employees in Spain who wish to take early retirement so that, depending on the budget that is still available, a small number of them can do so, as reported yesterday at the committee meeting of employment.

Union sources present at the meeting, consulted by Europa Press, explained that the number of exits is not closed, but will depend on the available budget, since the conditions of each early retirement are agreed individually between the worker and the bank.

Thus, depending on the budget, it is estimated that between 50 and 90 Santander employees in Spain who had shown interest in doing so could take early retirement in the coming months.

This is not an early retirement plan that Santander is actively offering, but rather forms part of the usual dynamic of analyzing the available budget in order to be able or not to accept some exit requests. Each year, towards the end of the year, the entity studies whether to accept some requests for early retirement until reaching the budget that it still had available.

Exits are also not part of any collective dismissal process. That is why the unions recommend that those interested go to their reference labor representative to find out, since the fiscal conditions and access to retirement are different from those of an employment regulation file.

At the end of June, Santander Spain had 26,272 employees, which represents an increase of 0.7% compared to March, and 1,921 branches, 1.5% less.

From CC.OO. They consider that this slight increase in the workforce "is not enough" to deal with the work overload of the branches and they have asked the company during the meeting to improve the staff ratio of the offices.

In another order of things, the union has also asked the bank to convene the commission to monitor the Agreement on Social Improvements Extra Agreement (Amsec), which includes the conditions of loans, credits and conditions of use of banking services by employees, to update and improve the conditions of the aforementioned agreements and negotiate the incorporation of a fixed-rate mortgage, given the rise in interest rates.

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