ROMA – Double move by the government on Ita (the new national airline) e Alitalia (the old and dying). Palazzo Chigi will reactivate the cash desk integration in favor of Alitalia workers, albeit in measured forms. The government, then, is working on a rule that allows an orderly handover between Ita and Alitalia, shortly the target of the knockout blow. At Alitalia, theEurope will require you to return 1.3 billion (although Brussels denies final decisions in this regard).
It is money that governments have turned over to the carrier, in deficit structural, between 2017 and 2019; now branded as state aid, contrary to EU law. Precisely for this reason he is working on a regulation that prevents Alitalia from putting his hand on the portfolio until 14 October, the date on which it will cease operations. This will ensure an orderly transition from Alitalia to Ita; otherwise Alitalia may find itself bankrupt.
Commanders, hostesses and white-collar workers, the charge of 30,000 for a place in Ita
by Lucio Cillis
At the end of yesterday’s Council of Ministers, Andrea Orlando (Labor) vigorously asked a Daniele Franco (Economy) to renew the layoffs. On Franco are also pressing Pd and the League, founding members of the executive, attentive to the protests of Alitalia workers. Finally, they make themselves felt Leu and part of the Five stars while Brothers of Italy (from the opposition) wants the premier Mario Draghi report to the Houses.
The requests of the labor unions, however, they are judged over the top.
It is unlikely that the government will extend the cash until 2025 in response to a request from the commissioners of Alitalia limited to one year, until 22 September 2022. And it is almost impossible for Draghi to give the green light to a subsidy like the one in 2008, when the staff collected up to 80% of their salary. An intermediate fall point is worked.
Minister Orlando also wants those Alitalia employees who are recipients of the cash and not employed by Ita to continue to train. Thanks to the training, they will keep the qualifications to fly and will be able to apply to work in Italy from 2022 when the new company – hopefully – will hit the balance sheet and multiply its flights.
On two other points, the government and Ita will not give in to union pressure: national contract e salaries. The new airline, even if fully publicly controlled, will not apply the national contract of the aviation sector. Ita employees – just 2,800 in the first instance – will be paid on the basis of internal regulations. And their fees will be severely cut.
The unions calculate, for example, that a 50-year-old pilot will receive 26,000 euros gross less per year than a pilot Ryanair of 30 years, therefore thanks to a much lower seniority. Ita – which certainly has ready salary cuts between 15 and 20% depending on the roles – objects that it will field advantageous production bonuses. An employee will be able to earn up to 15% more than his base salary, but provided the carrier is in profit.
The lines chosen by Ita are consistent with the requests of the EU, which claims total discontinuity between the troubled history of Alitalia and that of the new company. Therefore, if Europe gives the green light to Ita to take off on October 15, it is because these conditions are met.
At the same time, Europe is preparing to brand the contributions that Alitalia collected between 2017 and 2019 as illegitimate state aid. When the EU decision is formalized, Alitalia will be forced to return 1.3 billion euros by taking a step strong towards the abyss of failure. Ita will not be affected by this decision precisely because it is a new company.
But the handover between companies is at risk. This is why the government is working on a safeguard law. It will perhaps be included in the Mobility decree fired last week, but still in the pits. It’s not finished in yet Official Gazette because it is burdened by some technical imperfections.
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