The Fieg press release

The publishers of the FIEG, from the very beginning of the start of the confrontation for the contractual renewal, have represented the need for a substantial change of the contractual rules to recover efficiency and productivity and to allow the new challenges of the market, crossed by epochal technological innovation, to be adequately faced.

In fact, one finds oneself having to apply a national labour contract full of rigidities, constraints and institutions that are now unsustainable and which hinder competitiveness and aggravate the economic situation of companies, while also representing a barrier to the entry of new professionals.

It certainly cannot be considered a development factor to have a contract that provides, for example, 40 days per year between holidays and leaves, payment of an allowance for former holidays cancelled 50 years ago, surcharges for Sunday and holiday work well above the average of other national contracts, and recognition of seniority bonuses as a percentage of pay that amply guarantee inflation recovery.

Publishers want to find economically sustainable conditions so as not to further damage both companies and professionals.

To this end, it was proposed to the union that it take up the challenge of completely modernising the contract and introducing specific rules to encourage the inclusion of young professionals, as already successfully tested in the last contract renewal signed with the same union.