PepsiCo is to axe 250 jobs in Spain amid changes to how the US giant locally distributes its products, trade union officials have announced.
Local trade union Unión General de Trabajadores (UGT) said the cuts would affect permanent and temporary workers.
Just Food has approached PepsiCo for comment.
According to the Expansion newspaper, PepsiCo plans to outsource the distribution of its products in Spain.
In a statement, UGT said the job losses would be felt across PepsiCo’s operations in Spain. The union said the move would have a “special impact” in Andalusia, where the Lay’s brand owner “plans to close all of its sales branches”.
The union argued the “objective circumstances” did not justify the scale of the cuts and would not rule out moves to protest PepsiCo’s decision.
“The organisational and fixed-cost reasons cited by the company to justify the outsourcing of the commercial area are not valid, given that the company is not making a loss and outsourcing is a traumatic measure that is far from the best option for workers,” UGT said.
“It should be remembered that PepsiCo’s workforce in Spain already faced a collective redundancy plan in 2023 and 2024 that affected almost 600 workers, so the new procedure that the management intends to initiate will apply to an already severely depleted workforce.”
