{"id":976278,"date":"2025-11-25T08:21:46","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T02:51:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=976278"},"modified":"2025-11-25T08:29:34","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T02:59:34","slug":"telefonica-proposes-laying-off-more-than-5000-workers-in-spain-unions-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/11\/25\/telefonica-proposes-laying-off-more-than-5000-workers-in-spain-unions-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Telefonica proposes laying off more than 5,000 workers in Spain, unions say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MADRID: Telefonica has proposed laying off 5,040 people in Spain as part of cost-cutting efforts envisaged in its new strategy, trade unions UGT and CCOO said on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>If carried out, the layoffs would affect 41% of employees in the Telefonica de Espana unit, 31% at Telefonica Moviles and 24% in Telefonica Soluciones, adding up to around 20% of Telefonica&#8217;s staff in Spain of roughly 25,000.<\/p>\n<p>UGT said Telefonica had also proposed a 32% reduction in staff at its subscription TV service Movistar+.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MADRID: Telefonica has proposed laying off 5,040 people in Spain as part of cost-cutting efforts envisaged in its new strategy, trade unions UGT and CCOO said on Monday. If carried out, the layoffs would affect 41% of employees in the Telefonica de Espana unit, 31% at Telefonica Moviles and 24% in Telefonica Soluciones, adding up to around 20% of Telefonica&#8217;s staff in Spain of roughly 25,000. UGT said Telefonica had also proposed a 32% reduction in staff at its subscription TV service Movistar+.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-976278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=976278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=976278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=976278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=976278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}