They could sunbathe on the beach doing nothing with the certainty of receiving their salary at the end of the month. Instead they want the desk because they expect to work. And the dispute before the labor judge brought by six employees of Pfizer Italia against the pharmaceutical company which has been preventing workers from entering the office and carrying out their duties for nine months. «It is a case of mobbing that has the flavor of retaliation», argue the lawyers of the six employees, the lawyers Giovanni Marcellitti and Alberica De Lorenzo. «Our clients were fired but the judge ordered their reinstatement. Paying them without making them work seems like revenge».
This is the latest phase of a judicial dispute that has been pitting Pfizer since 2008 against the six employees assigned to internal services, dismissed six years ago with a dismissal declared void by the Rome court of appeal last September. A ruling that forced the pharmaceutical company to reinstate workers.
According to the device, in addition to the payment of salaries not received in recent years, they must get their badge, office, desk and computer back. However, the judge's ruling was disregarded and the six employees were not allowed to return: they are salaried but cannot do what they are paid for, i.e. carry out the internal maintenance of the company premises. The protagonists of this story are Giovanni Marsan, Francesco Capoccetta, Fabiano Mocenigo, Stefano Moretti, Paolo Ronci, Claudio Tegazio.
Pzifer, however, decides to sell the company branch to Siram spa, which is responsible for hiring the six employees. The workers appealed the decision. It is then that the company first lays them off and fires them. Last September they won the case on appeal. But Pfizer is finding it difficult to enforce the judge's decision.
Giulio De Santis – 30 June 2014 – Corriere della Sera Rome
