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Grupo Libra must cut 50% of employees and close boarding operations.

Written by Paulo Nogueira
Published 11/04/2019 às 01:00

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After being forced by the Justice to maintain activities at the Ponta da Praia terminal, Grupo Libra affirms in a hearing this Monday, the 8th, the reduction of staff and the closure of boarding operations on the next 28th.

Grupo Libra confirmed, in a hearing at the 2nd Bankruptcy and Judicial Reorganization Court of the São Paulo Court of Justice (TJ–SP), that it will reduce the number of professionals and close shipment operations, maintaining only the bonded storage service. The section was marked after Libra made a statement to workers that operations would end on the 28th. bankruptcy – and has a lease in force until May 2018.

At the meeting, which lasted an average of two hours, the CEO of Companhia Docas do Estado de São Paulo (Codesp), Casemiro Tércio Carvalho, was present at the session, as well as two directors and lawyers from Grupo Libra. According to the Port Authority, the terminal reaffirmed the end of shipments, but said it will continue to store cargo.

The director-president of Companhia Docas asks which metal boxes will be moved in view of the transfer of operations to other terminals. "What I'm actually going to do is inspect it." Since, according to the leasing contract, the company must move at least 400 units of containers per year.

The company issued a note informing that it will maintain bonded storage activities at its terminal and said that, within the specified period, “it will present in its Judicial Reorganization the project to adapt its structures for this new phase”.

about the employees

With approximately 800 employees, Carvalho says that the group's directors confirmed the need to reduce staff. Although nothing has been made official, there has been talk of a 50% reduction.

Grupo Libra preferred not to comment on the issue of jobs. The company limited itself to saying that it presented to the Court “the necessary explanations to clarify questions about the announcement of the shipowners changing the operation of their services from Libra to another terminal in the Port of Santos”.

Sindicato

Settaport – Union of Land Employees in Waterway Transport and Port Operators of the State of São Paulo, which represents approximately 500 professionals, reported having filed a labor lawsuit against the company this past week.

The decision aims to guarantee workers' rights, informs the president of Settaport, Francisco Nogueira.

Nogueira hopes that the company will keep the jobs until the end of the terminal's operating contract, which will allow for the transition and use of workers.

The president of Settaport was there on April 1st, as were the company's directors, but the conversations were no longer encouraging. “We were given the worst case scenario. They said they will not have operations from the 28th and there is no way to support a thousand professionals without doing anything at the terminal”.

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Paulo Nogueira

An electrical engineer graduated from one of the country's technical education institutions, the Instituto Federal Fluminense - IFF (formerly CEFET), I worked for several years in the areas of offshore oil and gas, energy and construction. Today, with over 8 publications in magazines and online blogs about the energy sector, my focus is to provide real-time information on the Brazilian employment market, macro and micro economics and entrepreneurship. For questions, suggestions and corrections, please contact us at informe@clickpetroleoegas.com.br. Please note that we do not accept resumes for this purpose.

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