Natuzzi, agreement reached between company and trade unions
Signing at the Ministry of Labour. Agreement on 62% extraordinary redundancy fund and redundancy incentives. The dispute remains open
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In the end, the agreement was reached. Natuzzi and trade unions sign an agreement at the Ministry of Labour.
Details
Redundancy pay at 62% on average, until the end of 2026; and EUR 6 million, made available by the company, to encourage voluntary redundancies. These are the main terms of the agreement. The modalities, to define the number of workers involved, will be discussed in the coming days at the headquarters in Santeramo in Colle, in the province of Bari.
An agreement hailed as a first "securing the sofa giant" in deep crisis. An agreement that buys time and liquidity. To begin immediately afterwards to discuss all the other knots and longer-range strategies at the permanent round table confirmed for 27 May at Mimit: production reorganisation, reshoring, corporate structure, governance. But also access to the negotiated crisis settlement and the procedure for the entry of Invitalia, hence the state, into the share capital. 'A first step in the right direction,' comments the Minister for Enterprise and Made in Italy, Adolfo Urso.
The table of the 27th at Mimit
The convening of the table was conditional on the signing of a union agreement. The summit on Tuesday 19 May follows last week's meeting, which ended in a deadlock over the proposal for an 80% CIGS: the Ministry had asked the company to reformulate its proposal on both the redundancy fund and redundancy incentives.
The bilateral
The meeting, which started at 9.30 a.m., had been preceded by an informal bilateral meeting between the workers' representatives and the owners. Among the new proposals on the table, as reported by IlSole24ore on Tuesday 19 May, was a 70 per cent redundancy fund and incentives of EUR 50,000 for 100 workers, to be paid in six months, with the addition of support also from the Apulia Region. After another five hours of discussion, in the end the percentage of cigs was lowered again and the agreement was reached, with everyone's signature. And with the commitment to active policies by the Apulia Region-which, with its councillor for Economic Development, Eugenio Sciascio, applauds the agreement. For the group's 1,755 workers and for the entire Alta Murgia upholstered furniture district, with over 600 small and medium-sized enterprises.
