Among the 204 redundancies there are 80 ISF (Scientific Pharmaceutical Representatives), while there are currently over 30 uncovered areas throughout Italy. These further redundancies add up to the more than 450 workers who have already left as well as some transfers of company branches”.
Of Direttore – 12 ottobre 2014 – Il Corriere della Città
The next negotiation table requested by the unions will therefore take place on 28 October, who are asking for a less drastic solution for employees. "In the month of September 2014 Sigma tau presented a mobility procedure for 204 workers - explain some workers - This at the end of 3 years of CIGS: 1 year for company crisis (2012) and 2 years for restructuring (2013-2014).
These further redundancies add up to the more than 450 workers who have already left as well as some transfers of company branches”. "The disconcerting thing - they continue - lies in the fact that among the 204 redundancies there are 80 ISF (Scientific Drug Representatives), while currently throughout Italy there are over 30 uncovered areas, with entire Regions where Sigma tau is not present with a large part of its drugs: this leads to a turnover that decreases from month to month. Some informants who have won cases (over 30) and have been recognized by the Judge as "illegitimately laid off", are currently salaried but kept at home, despite the loss of turnover and uncovered areas.
This situation puts even those workers who are still on the force in great difficulty, because it burdens them further, also having to take on the work of absent colleagues, with great risks also as regards health and safety in the workplace, as highlighted by the RLSSA delegates to the competent authorities".
But the fears are also others. “In fact, there are rumors of an imminent partnership with another company – say the workers – as reported by national newspapers. Ultimately, in January 2012, Sigma Tau applied for a CIGS for 569 redundancies; today, after 3 years, he is asking for as much as 654, in addition to the transfer of business units.
It seems clear that the goal is only to reduce the number of workers to the bone, probably in order to be sold more easily with an operation that falls economically on the shoulders of the community. Even more disconcerting is the total silence that has fallen on this "strange" operation, considering the many complaints presented over 18 months ago in the various Italian prosecutors.
The RSU and the trade union representatives have rejected this further cut, proposing other solutions that to date the company has always rejected”. "The Special Attorney - let the union representatives know through a press release - illustrated the ways in which the Company intends to use the legal criteria (seniority of service, family members, technical-organisational needs), specifying that the involvement of the personnel identified is based on the professional profiles as per the opening document of the collective redundancy.
The trade unions and the RSU, acknowledging the detailed exposition, reiterated that the identification of the criteria (those established by law and/or others) and of the personnel involved takes place during the Agreement or non-Agreement phase with the Trade Unions. at the end of the time set for the analysis and discussion with the social partners.
We are still in the research and identification phase of other possible solutions that significantly reduce the number of redundancies declared and allow for a voluntary exodus of workers against a decent incentive, also resorting to an additional economic accelerator".
The unions also point out "that the exit of force personnel has created jobs that must be filled by the personnel still in CIGS, both in the external network and in the headquarters: to date, since the beginning of the process, more than 450 workers", and that "the Industrial Plan for corporate restructuring approved by the competent Ministry has its natural expiry at the end of 2015 and this is a fundamental reason for requesting a further year of layoffs: this is the strong request of all trade unions . and of the RSU.
In parallel to this request, the RSU deems it necessary to open a new voluntary mobility by providing a dignified and serious incentive in order to facilitate the exodus. With the Referral Report, the Parties have established to update the discussion on 28 October at 2.30 pm at Unindustria".
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