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Sky Italia: 2,500-3,000 releases in 4 years in the reorganization plan

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A number of exits between 2,500 and 3 thousand by 2024. All on 11 thousand employees: 5 thousand internal and 6 thousand external. The plan, which should bring savings of 300 million, would not provide for layoffs but only voluntary abandonments. These are the numbers that emerged during the meeting between Sky and the unions to present the new reorganization plan. Which had been expected and fixed for weeks. In the meantime, there have been developments on the Serie A auction unfavorable to Sky, with the attribution of the rights to Dazn in partnership with Tim. But these numbers have a genesis and a gestation that goes beyond.

The answer to the transformation of the sector

The meeting was attended by the CEO of Sky Italia, Maximo Ibarra and the National, Territorial and Rsu General Secretaries of Slc Cgil, Fistel Cisl and Uilcom Uil. «The CEO – reads the press release of the trade union organizations – presented a highly competitive sector framework in strong technological transformation and towards full digitalization. The progress of the digitization processes and the diffusion of streaming platforms also in our country puts the entire broadcaster sector in front of a process of irreversible transformation ». To weigh is also the complication “deriving from the negotiation on the rights of the Serie A football championship which to date sees the company out of this match”.

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Impact on 25% of the workforce

At stake is therefore a plan of 300 million savings “costs related to lower management, production and labor costs”, always explain the unions. “The competitive pressure and the overall economic scenario linked to the health crisis require, according to the company, a path that, in addition to organizational change, will lead to a rationalization of overall costs over the three years” of this magnitude. On the specific issue of labor costs, «the company has quantified the objective of reducing overall numbers in the three-year period at approximately 25% (to date the company controlled by the American Comcast has 5 thousand direct employees and approximately 6 thousand external employees). The top corporate executives therefore proposed starting an overall discussion on the entire reorganization plan, with the desire to avoid any unilateral action and confirming the willingness to build a socially responsible path ».

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Over The Top and digitization

In short, the meeting between the Sky leaders and the trade union component has put on the table what the company sees as a necessity, that is to continue on a transformation plan that is necessary to adapt the operating model of the Sky group to the competition of Over-The-Top operators. In addition to this, emphasis will be placed on digitization and group-level centralization of different activities. «The transformation of the production model, and therefore also of Sky’s professionalism, is a challenge to be seized. However, with an essential element of clarity: the confrontation that will begin shortly, as far as we are concerned – the unions point out – will have as its object the organization of the company’s overall work. The rationalization of costs is a result of the revision of the organization of work. In this process, however, there must be various solutions, agreed and not unilateral, which can contribute to achieving the goal of transformation. This therefore means that we do not start from numbers to be reached regardless. And above all that the solutions will be shared and not traumatic, therefore in the context of today’s declarations of intent ».

The unknown Serie A

Now the operational phase will begin. In which a series of meetings will be scheduled. Moreover, in recent weeks we will know more about the outcome of the auction on TV rights for Serie A. “What they presented to us – Pierpaolo Mischi, national secretary of Uilcom Uil explains to Radiocor – is a plan that we can try to manage with a view to social compatibility, also because it has been diluted over time, over a period of four years “. Net of this, however, Mischi himself adds that he is more concerned “about the possible implications of the football TV rights issue with possible further negative impacts on employment”. In this case, explains the trade unionist, “as said by the CEO Maximo Ibarra, there could be an update of the plan and this could involve some risk, even if the CEO confirmed that it should always be managed in continuity with the current one, according to criteria of social sustainability “.

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