In the new industrial plan for the period 2022-2026, the Natuzzi group laid the foundations for the relaunch of the company, sharing them with the Feneal Uil, Filca Cisl and Fillea Cgil unions, at the Ministry of Economic Development. It is an open plan with 2 options.
One that contains 512 redundancies, production over three shifts and only three plants, with the exclusion, for example, of Graviscella, but would have been discarded for the moment.
The other option, which is gaining momentum, foresees the reopening of the Ginosa plant, with production in 5 plants and a whole series of measures to minimize the employment consequences. In fact, the plan also includes the declaration of 315 redundancies, due to the cost of processing the product which in Italy is higher than in other European countries and to the need for greater efficiency, as envisaged by the new industrial plan.
Claudio Sottile of Filca-Cisl, explains that «with this Industrial Plan we must finally put an end to almost twenty years of social safety nets and the lack of a long-term strategy of the Group, which is preventing its relaunch. Natuzzi workers want to work and want to retrain. I also consider the desire to simplify both the modeling and the components of the products very positive: this will lead to an optimization of production times, without affecting the variety of models and the quality of the sofas produced by the company “.
Regarding redundancies, however, there would be a commitment on the part of the company to manage excess personnel “in a non-traumatic way through a mix of tools, such as the expansion contract, the use of part time, active policies for re-employment, the relocation agreements, the redundancy incentives, the solidarity network contract, the return of part of the activities today in Romania ”, explains Fabrizio Pascucci of Feneal Uil.