Tag: Spain

Correos, the Spanish post office, has been fined 30,000 euros by the government of the autonomous region of Catalonia for failing to provide Catalan-language versions of signs and documents in a number of its facilities in the autonomous region. The company said that it may appeal the decision, and commented that the breaches of legislation only applied to 20 or so of its 800 sites in Catalonia, or barely 2.5 per cent of its operation in the region. The fine refers to 1998 legislation requiring companies to feature applicable regional languages in their paperwork and signposting.

In Spain the public works Minister, Magdalena Alvarez, has undertaken a major management restructure at postal services operator Correos. In July and August more than a dozen executives and middle management staff left the company, including financial director Diego Valle and head of communications Emma Marin. Sources close to the company have indicated that the management restructure is not yet complete and that more departures could occur over the next few days.