On average 250 euros less per month for former employees. Trade unions: differences between the hours calculated in 2020 and 2021
SACILE. Redundancy fund 2021 more “lean” for former workers of Mercatone Uno: there are over twenty in Sacile and over a thousand in Italy. “There is a difference between the hours calculated for the 2021 and 2020 layoffs – noted Gianni Schembri (Uil-Tucs) -. A year ago it was calculated on the contracts prior to the management of the last Shernon Holding property. The one that in 2018 had reduced them: from 38 hours a week to 28, 24 and 20 hours and in 2021 the monthly allowance was calculated on this part time “.
The difference in euros is calculated with a cut in the counts from 38 hours per week of the old contract to 28, 14 or 20 hours in the Shernon management: about 250 euros less per month.
“We need an ad hoc law for the workers of the former Mercatone Uno: INPS does not pay the difference – they said at the Uil-Tucs union counter -. There is no political commitment and the appeal is launched to the Regions and to the parliamentarians of Friuli » Many workers are waiting for a recovery of outstanding debts, such as customers and suppliers: the times are also getting longer for the cassintegrati in Sacile, where the store in Cornadella has been sold to Ricagest-Risparmio casa: the shop will reopen perhaps in November 2021. The new ownership of the former Mercatone is Ricagest intends to open the store of products for the home and person within the year.
The Filcams-CGIL union is following the process: the definition of the precise time schedule and the reopening plan of the shop that has been emptied. The transfer of ownership of Mercatone Uno to Ricagest di Risparmio casa also offers protection to 24 workers, in layoffs ex Mercatone Uno until November 2021.
«In September the construction site for the preparation and arrangement of the ex Mercatone Uno store could open – they have foreseen at Filcams-Cgil -. Ricagest guaranteed the absorption of the workforce of layoff workers: those who remained on the road since the failure of the last Shernon Holding property two years ago ». The restructuring phase will be defined within the year. The priorities: defending the occupation and reopening Cornadella ».