Overview
- The ERTE, filed by temp agency GCT Plus, covers workers assigned to the Santa Eugènia de Berga macromatadero operated by Grupo Jorge.
- Approval allows eligible employees to access unemployment benefits while production is curtailed.
- Authorities report 13 infected wild boar near Cerdanyola del Vallès with no farm cases confirmed to date.
- Containment steps include a 20 km restriction zone, forest access bans across 91 municipalities, and authorization to cull over 30,000 healthy pigs in slaughterhouses for disease control.
- Export curbs, including China’s province-level regionalization, have shut key non‑EU markets worth about €400 million annually, after which Grupo Jorge earlier suspended around 300 workers.