Auchan once again the ax falls on jobs in Italy. In mid-March, the French distribution giant had announced 1.100 layoffs, but yesterday – surprisingly – he upped the ante, starting the mobility procedure for 1.426 people out of the 11.422 employees of the 51 offices in our country. The redundancies are distributed evenly between the North, Center and South, and not concentrated in the South, as was initially foreseen.
In any case, 320 of the layoffs are concentrated in the five Campania hypermarkets of Nola, Pompei, Giugliano, Mugnano and Naples-via Argine. Added to these redundancies are the 80 that have just been implemented in Pompeii and Mugnano through incentivized mobility.
Just over a month ago the unions had rejected the alternative business plan to redundancies which provided for exceptions to the national contract regarding demotion, waiver of the structural fourteenth month's salary for the South and temporary for the points of sale in the North, as well as the suspension of seniority increases and the supplementary contract.
When the negotiation was broken, the company responded with a new and more substantial redundancy plan. Workers' representatives called it a "unilateral act" and proclaimed a day of strike throughout Italy for 9 May, without excluding mobilizations even before that date.
The procedure for collective redundancies now provides 45 days to try to restart the negotiation, to which they add 30 technical days for summoning to the ministry.
