ROME. The French multinational of large-scale distribution Carrefour Italia has formalized the collective dismissal procedure to the unions announced in recent weeks as part of the discussion activated between the parties on the 2022 Business Plan. 769 workers are involved in the personnel reduction procedure in 9 Regions : Valle D’Aosta, Lombardy, Piedmont, Liguria, Emilia Romagna, Tuscany, Lazio, Campania, Sardinia. There are 261 redundancies in 27 hypermarkets, 313 in 67 markets, 168 in 10 cash & carry and 168 jobs at the administrative offices of Milan, Nichelino, Rome, Airola, Grugliasco, Naples, Rivalta and Moncalieri. The plan proposed by the company management also includes the disposal of 106 stores of the direct sales network, of which 82 Express and 24 Market, with the transfer to third-party entrepreneurs of the franchising network.
The unions report that in the company note it is explained that «the reasons underlying the surplus situation are to be identified in the serious economic management situation. The overall decline in turnover and customers on the one hand, and the incidence of labor costs on the other, have led to a situation of serious imbalance which is no longer sustainable and forces the company to undertake a structural intervention aimed at rebalancing the relationship. between staff and turnover “.
“The Fisascat Cisl – declares the deputy general secretary of the Cislin federation Vincenzo Dell’Orefice – does not consider the path of a confrontation aimed solely at allowing dismissals and sale of shops to third parties to be feasible”. The trade unionist urges Carrefour Italia “to integrate its action plan with parts relating to the future prospect of the directly operated network in Italy”. Starting with “a detailed investment plan on the physical commercial network, which in many cases presents structural defects that make the points of sale less and less usable and that often end up alienating customers from the brand”. To then intervene with “a focus on the hypermarket, a format that plays a significant role in the corporate organization of the French multinational in Italy, also in terms of employees, and which, therefore, must necessarily be relaunched, if Carrefour actually wants to remain in our country”. And therefore “from the definition of a protocol on the working conditions and treatment of employees employed in the franchising branch and in outsourced activities”.
Addressing a negotiation only to allow the Company to reach the breakeven point in 2022, without it making specific commitments on the relaunch of its business and on the preservation of employment – claims Dell’Orefice – is not feasible. Fisascat Cisl – concluded the trade unionist – believes it is of fundamental importance that the negotiations undertaken with the management of Carrefour Italia are aimed at establishing solutions that go beyond 2022, to concretely verify whether the interlocutors of the company part really intend to work effectively for the creation of a medium-term management balance “.