On the menu: Italian pension reforms facilitate TIM (former Telecom Italia) restructuring, UK High Court to rule on whether outsourced workers can enter into collective bargaining with contracting companies; Austrian government proposes a day’s leave for religious practice (taken as part of overall leave entitlement.
Italy/Pension reforms facilitate TIM (former Telecom Italia) restructuring. On 26 February, TIM together with the trade unions SLC-Cgil, Fistel-Cisl, Uilcom, and UGL Telecomunicazioni signed three agreements treating early-retirement, which are part of the framework of understanding concluded in June 2018 with the Labor Ministry, and which intends for 4,500 job lay-offs without making any job redundancies over the upcoming years. In particular the social partners took the ‘Quota 100’ measure into consideration (c.f.
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