Unicaja

closes next Saturday the employment regulation file (ERE) for

1,500 employees

motivated by the merger with Liberbank.

With him, another black year culminates in Spanish banking in terms of job cuts.

More than

18,000 workers

from the main financial institutions are going to go to the streets due to mergers or changes in functions caused by the digitization of banking activity.

Thus, last year became the

year with the most layoffs or early retirements in the Spanish financial sector

.

Only 2013 is approaching, with 18,300 layoffs and layoffs due to early retirement.

In addition, proportionally, the employment crisis is much greater now if we take into account that between 2008-2009, -the years of the financial crisis that caused, among other things, the disappearance of savings banks- and last year the sector banking has already lost more than

120,000 workers.

ERE bank digitization

The fundamental characteristic of this wave is that in most cases these processes have resulted in

voluntary

dismissals, after more exit requests were submitted than the number of dismissals. The conditions offered by the entities and the new skills required by the positions that are created mean that many employees over 50 years of age prefer to take advantage of the files or request early retirement without waiting for the bank to make the decision.

For example,

CaixaBank

received more than 8,200 voluntary requests for 6,542 withdrawals contemplated by the ERE;

BBVA

, 5,216 for 2,735 and

Sabadell

, about 2,100 for 1,605 people (not counting early retirements at the end of 2020). At

Santander

, 99% of the withdrawals agreed to in its ERE have also been voluntary. Overall, the excess demand for voluntary departures has been higher than 40% of the withdrawals agreed between the unions and the financial entities.

The banks want to

rejuvenate the workforce

and pose generous conditions for their most veteran workers. This rejuvenation means, on the one hand, that staff are more adapted to the new conditions of the banking business, especially in the use of internet banking and, on the other, that they join with lower salaries and with much less advantageous agreements for workers than those that banks have always had in our country.

The favorable conditions offered by the banks will entail a

joint disbursement of some 5,000 million euros

, CaixaBank will be the one that will spend the most for this concept, 1,900 million euros.

Santander is the second that has devoted the most money to staff adjustment, with 1,146 million, while the cost for BBVA was 960 million euros.

in Unicaja there are 368 million;

at Banco Sabadell, 269 million, and at Ibercaja, 151 million euros.

This disbursement will be recovered with the savings expected for the next few years.

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