The telecom had earlier this month announced it would negotiate the layoff of around 515 employees, some 12 percent of its Spanish workforce, citing challenging conditions on the competitive Spanish market.
That number has already been trimmed to 509, according to a separate source from the UGT union, which represents about half of syndicated workers. Nearly half of all workers due to be laid off work in the proprietary stores slated for closure, the source added.
Negotiations are set to last until late October.
France-based Orange announced it was laying off 485 employees in May, citing Spain’s increasingly low-cost and hyper-competitive telecoms sector.