FedEx abandons Spain for Morocco

FedEx, the American multinational transport and logistics company, plans to lay off 96 employees in Spain, mainly in the areas of customer service, sales and new technologies (IT), and to relocate to Morocco and Turkey where main -labor is cheaper.

This measure is part of a European strategy to reduce “structural costs” and relocation and subcontracting in countries like Morocco “where labor is cheaper and where rights are fewer in number,” explains the General Union of Workers (UGT) to The newspaper. Last June, FedEx announced in a press release its intention to reduce the number of sales and administrative teams at its subsidiaries in Europe, “between 1,700 and 2,000 people”.