EssilorLuxottica accelerates adoption of short week

A programme agreement to coordinate actions and resources aimed at the development and competitiveness of Italian factories, starting with a further evolution of the short-week work organisation model successfully introduced more than two years ago.

It is signed by EssilorLuxottica with the National Secretaries, National Coordinators and Trade Union Coordination of Filctem CGIL, Femca Cisl and Uiltec Uil.

The new work organisation was introduced by the company integrative contract 2024-2026, and provides for 20 additional days off per year, typically Fridays, with equal pay. The aim, as of 1 January 2026, is to extend the model to an entire production site for the first time, allowing all staff to benefit from 20 weeks of four working days without any reduction.

"The company's investment in supporting the model and the new experimentation," the company explained in a note, "will, in the plans, lead to an improvement in the work-life balance of employees and the quality of their individual contribution, in a production context for the Group in the country that focuses on excellence and the enhancement of Made in Italy, especially in the manufacture of high-end products where craftsmanship, passion that is transmitted to the product and precision are essential. The new model will allow greater production efficiency, optimisation of working time and a positive environmental impact, particularly in terms of energy consumption'.

In this context, the agreement envisages the common intention between the parties to strengthen the component linked to production excellence in the incentive mechanisms for workers and in the calculation of the annual performance bonus, in order to make the Group's industrial development strategy in the country shared and participatory.