Italy: the pharmaceutical sector comes up with solutions to face restructurings

An agreement to facilitate reskilling and reclassification of surplus employees in the pharmaceutical industry (which employs 72.000 people) and the creation of a "permanent table" for the development of this industry and employment at the Ministry of Economic Development: these are some of the first Italian answers for the crisis the sector is going through. (Ref. 080942)
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Revive competitiveness, support investments and employment: these are the objectives of the “permanent table for pharmacy” established at the Ministry of Economic Development on November 18, 2008 by the government and the sector’s social partners. Two days later, on November 20, the Filcem-CGIL, Femca-Cisl and Uilcem-Uil unions and the Farmindustria employers’ organization concluded an agreement for the establishment of “Welfarma”, a program of social support to the restructurings experienced b

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