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Alitalia, second tranche of March salaries released. Giovannini: “No to inequality from EU treatment”

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MILANO – Breath of oxygen for Alitalia workers: the former national airline has received the expected Covid refreshments and can now proceed with the payment of the remaining 50% of March salaries. The news was given directly by the commissioners in an internal communication to the employees. “We inform you that following the accreditation of the refreshments deemed adequate by the European Commission – write Leogrande, Santosuosso and Fava – we are able to proceed with the payment of the remaining 50% of the salaries for March, which you will receive with value tomorrow, April 8”.

The refreshments, explain the three commissioners in internal communication, relate to “the damage suffered by Covid in the months of November and December 2020”. The wages for March were partially paid on March 31 last: the company paid employees 50% of the envelope with currency on April 1, explaining that the remaining half would be paid when it arrived, on the account of the company, the sum of the refreshments.

The match with Europe and the rescue of Air France

Once this situation has been unlocked, the game with Europe for the launch of the new Ita company remains open. An issue that has become even more thorny after the decision by Brussels to give the green light to the state bailout of Air France, which has generated quite a few controversies between trade unions and some political forces. “We have intense negotiations on the industrial plan of Ita with the European Commission and we cannot accept unequal treatment by the European Commission compared to Air France and Lufthansa, knowing however that the conditions of the three companies are very different, starting with the budgets”, the Minister of Infrastructure and Sustainable Mobility said on the point, Enrico Giovannini, speaking to Rainews24. From where he guaranteed that “our commitment is maximum” on the matter and “also with respect to the issue of social hardship next to me, there are Franco and Giorgetti and Minister Orlando is also involved to imagine solutions that minimize the inconvenience for the workers “.

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Yesterday, at the formalization of the go-ahead in Paris, a chorus of criticism arose along the parliamentary arch: Carlo Fidanza of Fdi spoke of “sons and stepchildren” by the EU institutions, the deputy Mauro Rotelli echoed him denouncing that the Commission is “biased against Italy”. Even the M5s (Massimo Castaldo and Giulia Lupo) used harsh tones speaking of a “two-way policy”. The Lega also set fire to the powders, pointing out a “disparity of treatment” that “holds the future of Alitalia and its employees hostage”. There was no lack of reactions from the trade unions: Uiltrasporti said she was “shocked” by the government’s “negligent” attitude towards a Commission that “is clearly and knowingly discriminating against our country”.

And today the leader of the CGIL Maurizio Landini during the hearing on the Dl Sostegni in the Senate he asked the government to convene the unions on Alitalia: “It is not possible and acceptable that we lose such an important company and that we suffer a series of diktats from Europe which, among other things, , does not have the same attitude towards everyone, we see support for the Air France plan, and since there was an industrial plan and pre-established financing, I think it is important that on this point there is attention from the Parliament . We are asking in these hours that there be an explicit convocation of the social partners by the government to avoid that there is a situation of dramatic no return in terms of jobs “.

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by our correspondents Alberto D’Argenio, Anais Ginori


The line collected in Brussels is, on the other hand, in continuity with what Giovannini himself remarked when he recalled that the conditions of the three companies are “very different”. As he told Republic, the Commission responds to criticism that it is possible to derogate from the rules prohibiting state aid – in response to the pandemic – but only in the presence of companies in good health, whose difficulties are directly linked to the outcomes of the health emergency. In essence, Covid cannot be an ‘excuse’ to keep companies that were already dead before the pandemic shock attached to oxygen. “For this reason companies already in difficulty before 31 December 2019 cannot access the recapitalization schemes. Alitalia has suffered persistent losses and the company was already in a state of difficulty. Unlike Air France and Lufthansa”, the position of the European executive.

To clear the field of the accusations of double-weighting, Brussels indeed recalls that to date there are 470 (out of 580) the requests for recapitalization granted, which therefore go well beyond the cases of the flag companies of France and Germany. And Italy is precisely the recipient of most of the green light (42).

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