Safilo, agreement on redundancies: incentivized mobility for 118

The employees concerned will have to sign the agreement by mid-March But the unions ask for guarantees: stop on new shock absorbers until the summer

LONGARONE. An agreement was signed in Safilo between the company and the trade unions for the incentivized mobility of the 118 redundancies left over from the 400 who had been declared two years ago.

Negotiations between the social partners and the company for the staff declared in excess were quickly concluded. The company was adamant, not granting other social safety nets, as the trade unions hoped. Even on incentives, the company does not seem to have been “generous” as some had hoped. The precise terms, especially as regards the incentives that will be reserved for outgoing personnel, will be specified during the meetings that will take place on Monday.

Instead, what the unions managed to achieve is Safilo’s commitment not to resort to other extraordinary social safety nets until the end of August. At that moment, in fact, the agreement with Kering for the production of the Gucci brand will be reconfirmed, an agreement that will expire in 2023. But there’s more: by the end of the summer it will be known whether Kering will confirm the production or not. of the famous brand to the company based in Padua. A confirmation that everyone hopes for, so as not to see the situation of the Longarone plant even more complicated.

The signing of the agreement foresees, as anticipated last week by the unions during the assemblies, the exit of the 23 retirement workers, some of whom have already left in recent weeks, and of 86 employees of the departments linked to the production of the metal, a sector that today marks a heavy setback. The departments involved are those of metal components, welding, pregalvanic, warehouse, acceptance control and product engineering: these departments will partly be closed and partly rationalize their production.

All workers must sign in writing by mid-March the adhesion to the agreement and therefore the non-opposition to the voluntary exit, which must take place by 31 March.

The remaining 32 workers, belonging to other departments but falling within the redundancies, could in the meantime decrease. Those who leave through the collective dismissal procedure will be granted an incentive to leave that will be the same as that which had been established in the 2021 agreement which provided for an increase in the monthly salaries paid based on the seniority of each interested party. Also contemplated the possibility, for those who will be able to hook up the pension in the next two years, to take advantage of incentives in addition to the Naspi.