Problems with the payment of remuneration at the Łódź company
Aquinos Bedding Poland This is a Portuguese producer of mattresses, which in 2022 took over the Łódź plant previously belonging to the Sembella brand (and earlier Recticell). At the beginning of this year Over 300 employees went to “parking”which means payment of only 80 percent.remuneration. In May, the crew Instead of paying, she only received stripes with calculations remuneration due. – Problems have been from the beginning of the year, but from January we have been reduced salaries, and now we do not have them at all. AND We don't know when we get salaries – said the chairwoman of “Solidarity” in Aquinos Bedding Poland Aleksandra Domańska in an interview with “Gazeta Wyborcza”.
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The plant manager confirmed In an interview with journalists that employees have not yet received remuneration or other cash benefits for April. He explained that this is due to the “delay in the effective finalization of the asset sales transaction in Belgium and the lack of influence of funds within the time limit enabling timely payment “.” According to information from the Director of the Bedding Division, the Aquinos Group, This week, a partial remuneration transfer is to be madewhereas The difference is to be paid by June 10, 2025 After the receipt of cash from the sale of assets in Belgium. We hope that the impact of cash from the aforementioned strategic transaction will improve the financial situation of the Aquinos group and its plant in Łódź, “said the portal Tysol.pl Michał Pietruszewski.
Trade unionists took action
Trade unionists from Aquinos asked for intervention to National Labor Inspectorate. At the same time they submitted an application to Guaranteed Employee Benefits Fund regarding the payment of overdue remuneration. The District Inspectorate in Łódź has already announced in the plant Work. Trade unionists have notified the situation also Provincial Council of Social Dialogue in Łódź, which – as “GW” informs – “appealed to the owner and management of the company about the sooner payment of overdue remuneration and presenting the crew of official information about the company's situation and its next perspectives.”
Problems have already begun
As the newspaper writes, employees reported that practically from the beginning of the company's takeover by the Portuguese, employment was regularly reduced. – about 600 people worked then, now approx. 200 left, and over 20 people are released every month. The company does not announce group layoffs, but regularly cuts employment so that it does not be subject to “groups” – they described. These are not the only problems. – company is in arrears with fees for rent and mediaat leastj several million zlotys. In April We even turned off the electricity For 10 days, we turned it on when some of the receivables were repaid, but the arrears increased again – says one of the employees. According to the Domański Aquinos account, creditors were to take up, to whom the money intended for payments was to be sent.
Sources: “Gazeta Wyborcza”, Business Insider, thousand.pl