Italy: tough autumn for the Italian labor market

Metal and steel.  From Alcoa to Sardinia, where about 1,000 direct and indirect workers could lose their job at Fincantieri, which is planning to cut 1,300 jobs out of 9,000 across the country, to Finmeccanica which is going to sell its civil activities to focus on the military, crisis-related restructurings are increasingly affecting metal and steel workers.  Relocations started with the electrical goods industry: the 360 workers from Indesit’s None plant (Piedmont), closed to be relocated in Poland (third closing in a few months for the group after Brembate and Refrontolo).  Electrolux’s social program (800 job cuts in Porcia (Pordenone) and Susegana (Tevisio)), which plans to save €30m in leave incentives, incentives to appeal to short-time working, retraining and reindustrialization measures, is on hold, the CGIL criticizes.  So far, only the leave incentive for 230 employees and CIG for the remaining workers have allegedly been applied.  In the auto industry, Fiat also put its 5,000 Mirafiori employees on short-time working for three weeks, between the end of July and September.  Meanwhile, the fate of the 1,468 direct employees affected by the closing of the Termini Imerese plant is still uncertain, as well as that of the 658 workers affected by the closing of Iveco Irisbus’ Valle Ufita (Avellino) facility, even though the company and the union signed an agreement last December.
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na (Tevisio)), which
plans to save €30m in leave incentives, incentives to appeal to short-time
working, retraining and reindustrialization measures, is on hold, the CGIL
criticizes. So far, only the leave incentive for 230 employees and CIG
for the remaining workers have allegedly been applied. In the auto
industry, Fiat also put its 5,000 Mirafiori employees on short-time working for
three weeks, between the end of July and September. Meanwhile, the fate
of the 1,468 direct employees affec

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