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Tiscali initiates collective redundancies of 180 employees in view of the sale of the B2C branch

Necessary step for the recomposition of the crisis and to then give the go-ahead for the leasing of the business unit

by Davide Madeddu

19 March 2026

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Key points

The BoD's decision
180 redundancies
The new procedure

2' min read

Translated by AI

Versione italiana

After the first incentive redundancy procedure, which was successful with 220 exits, Tiscali is now starting the procedure for the collective redundancy of 180 people out of atotal of 729 employees. This is the second phase of the plan involving the telecommunications company founded in Cagliari by Renato Soru in the 1990s and now with other offices in Bari, Taranto, Rome.

A necessary measure, that of workforce reduction, aimed at the settlement of the crisis and thus the sale of the business unit.

The BoD's decision

"On 1 March, the board of directors of the parent company Tesselis," the company wrote in a note sent to Unindustria, "accepted a binding offer for the valorisation of the Business B2C branch of the Tiscali and Linkem brands.

A transaction realised through the leasing of a branch of business with a view to its subsequent purchase. At the same time there was the filing with the Chamber of Commerce of the application to start the negotiated crisis settlement procedure. It was precisely these facts that led to a change in the company scenario.

180 redundancies

Hence the start of the collective dismissal procedure for 180 workers out of a total workforce of 729 employees 'adopting the non-opposition to dismissal as the sole criterion of identification'.

The largest number concerns Cagliari, where the redundancies affect eight executives, 62 office workers and 11 journalists.

Taranto with 73 employees.

Following Rome with 2 executives, 10 employees and 1 journalist.

Bari, 10 employees and 2 cadres, and finally Milan with 1 cadre.

Now the new phase opens with a series of meetings within 15 days to present the different options.

The new procedure

'For this second phase, the company has put forward a request to open a new procedure for incentive redundancies, which we,' underlines Tonino Ortega, secretary of Uilcom, 'did not sign because we considered the requests inadmissible. We stopped at this point and now the question of non-opposition remains on the table'.

Which translated, as Ortega points out, means: 'The company will proceed unilaterally by convening the workers and making the proposals for incentive redundancies.

The procedure brings news: among the redundancies are also the 12 journalists employed by the telecommunications company. And, while waiting for the procedures to go ahead, the doubts of the trade unions remain, which are keeping a high level of attention.

'We are strongly concerned about the future of a company that has an important weight in terms of employment and professionalism in Sardinia,' Ortega continued, 'we are now waiting for this procedure to end and for the leasing of the company branch to be closed. Only with the closure of these steps can we think about the future'.