Italy: Vodafone Italia signs agreement “redefining wage costs” and dealing with 700 ‘surplus’ workers

Launched in March, the negotiations between Vodafone Italia, the SLC-CGIl, Fistel-Cisl and Uilcom-Uil unions and the national RSU coordination led to an agreement on May 4.  It contains “non-traumatic solutions” to manage nearly 700 job cuts and measures aiming to improve productivity, competitiveness and efficiency at Vodafone Italia.  Besides, the company will not resort to mass layoffs and guarantees employment levels until April 30, 2016.  Outsourcing operations are also banned.  (Ref.  130317)
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Incentives leave. The group will propose an incentive amounting to 36 months’ pay to leave in June 2013, 28 months to leave in July 24 months in September and 8 months between October 1, 2013 and October 31, 2014. Workers who agree to be transferred to partner companies – with a fixed-term contract, no trial period and annual pay cut by at least 15% – will receive an incentive amounting to 28 months’ pay if they leave in June 2013 and 24 months if they leave in July. Starting in November...

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