Engineering, agreement on solidarity contracts

Solidarity contracts arrive for Engineering Ingegneria informatica. The reorganisation of the company, due to the crisis situation announced last January, will affect a perimeter of 658 workers who, thanks to the use of different tools, such as reinternalisation, outplacement and voluntary terminations, will decrease to 472. The hypothesis of the agreement reached with Fiom, Fim and Uilm, which now has to be voted by the workers, makes it possible to reduce the number of workers involved and to reduce the social impact thanks to the activation of the solidarity contract for a maximum use of 8 days per month, according to the criteria of equity and rotation. The agreement also provides for income support with the provision of a wage supplement of 75% for those workers most affected by the solidarity contracts. This will allow up to 95 per cent of the salary. The implementation of the agreement is subject to the go-ahead of the workers' and employees' assemblies that will be convened by the trade unions in the coming days.

Early exits will take place only on a voluntary basis, for those who meet the pension requirements and are part of the areas declared redundant. Voluntary redundancies and solidarity contracts will be flanked by the launch of training courses and periodic monitoring geared to the retraining and relocation of resources, with shared territorial checks. The agreement reached therefore defines an organic framework of tools and measures for the structured management of the company crisis. The next steps will be the discussion on the industrial plan, the assemblies with the workers, and the certified consultation. The path now continues with the discussion of the implementation of the new industrial plan, on which a meeting is already scheduled for 6 May with CEO Aldo Bisio.