The cosmetics company Natura, owner of Avon, is carrying out a business restructuring plan in the country. The workers were notified through telephone calls.
The cosmetics company nature, owner of Avon, closed the distribution plant San Fernando, province of Buenos Aires, and fired 278 workers through phone calls.
Sources close to the company indicated that The Brazilian manufacturer is carrying out a restructuring plan for Avon’s business in the country, and had opened, in a first stage, voluntary withdrawals.
The company communicated the decision to the workers through telephone calls in the last few hours, although they have not yet received the formal dismissal telegrams.
The almost 300 workers received phone calls over the weekend, when many were celebrating the end of the year party in a break belonging to the perfumers’ union, where they were informed that the plant was going to close and the layoffs would be carried out.
Workers were unable to enter the plant
This Monday, When they arrived at their workplace, they were prohibited from entering, even though they still did not have dismissal telegrams.
The Avon cosmetics company had its beginnings in the United States at the end of the 19th century and arrived in Argentina in the 70s, with a first industrial plant located in Moreno, which was joined a few years later by the center of San Fernando and a plant in Garín.
In 2020, the Brazilian company Natura bought Avon and became the fourth business group of beauty and cosmetics companies, while growing during the pandemic thanks to investment and digital growth through online sales.
Source: Ambito
