The Lanjarón-based, road-transport company Lanjatrans, which specialises in warehousing and road transport, both national and international, filed for bankrupcy.
Before going to court on August 18th, the company informed its staff by letter of its intention to file a collective redundancy plan (ERE) for termination due to economic reasons, which was officially announced on September 9th.
The ERE affects the company’s entire workforce of 94 workers. A second ERE was also filed on the same date for Lanjatrans Oil, the group’s auxiliary company that provides mechanical and maintenance services and employs ten people.
The majority of Lanjatrans workers are represented by labor lawyer José Luis Gómez Sousa, who began ERE negotiations last September.
“After the last meeting with the company, the positions remain very distant and conflicting. The accounting information they have presented to us raises many doubts; our feeling is that the economic reasons on which they want to base the layoffs are not real,” the lawyer argues, who considers that the process is “doomed to a showdown in court.”
“Once the consultation period concludes, the company can implement the layoffs and must notify them. At that point, a decision will be made as to whether those affected will file individual or collective appeals, because we believe the real circumstances do not justify the company’s closure,” he explains.
According to the company, they are still operating ‘partially’ and that the workers’ payl for September up to date. In the meantime the company is waiting for the bankruptcy declaration and the appointment of the administrator who will take over management.
Lanjatrans was founded in 1994 as a company dedicated exclusively to freight transport with a single client and had evolved to become one of the largest logistics groups in Andalusia, with a fleet of up to 200 lorries operating all over the country and beyond. It also has a modern, 10,000-sq/m warehouse with capacity for 22,500 pallets and side and rear loading docks in the Juncaril Industrial Estate.
The clue to the origin of Lanjatrans is in its name; i.e., Lanjarón. In 1947, José Mingorance began working with his own truck. Hard beginnings on precarious roads, which led him to be become the road hauler for Aguas Lanjarón.
(News: Lanjarón, Alpujarra, Granada, Andalucia)
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