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AstraZeneca plans layoffs in Spain, where it has 2,000 workers

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AstraZeneca's total revenue rose by nearly 9% to 49,347 million euros last year.

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AstraZeneca headquarters in Hamburg. Photo: Marcus Brandt/dpa Updated Oct 3, 2026 10:29 AstraZeneca is preparing layoffs in Spain. To this end, the company has already taken the step of sending prior notice to union representatives and has set the date for the first meeting of the negotiation table, which will take place on October 13. This is reported by El Confidencial, which indicates that, for the moment, it is unknown how many workers could be affected by the process that the pharmaceutical company intends to undertake. Although AstraZeneca has internally used the term "dismissal file," in internal communications the staff identifies it as an Employment Regulation File (ERE). Once the first negotiation table takes place on October 13, the negotiation period between the company and the workers' representatives will begin for thirty days. Precisely, it will be during these negotiations that AstraZeneca must specify the reasons that have led it to plan a layoff process, as well as the number of workers and the areas that will be affected. The laboratory, which had a wide media presence during the pandemic due to the development of one of the vaccines to combat COVID, has a workforce of about 2,000 workers in Spain. The Swedish-British company has its headquarters in Spain in Madrid and has an innovation center deployed in Barcelona. The AstraZeneca Global Hub located in...

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The turnover of the oncology division, with a growth of 15% to 21,523 million euros, drove revenues, which rose by nearly 9% to 49,347 million euros.

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