“Today we signed an innovative and important smart-working agreement in a company of the FCA group.” This was announced by Marco Bentivogli, general secretary of the FIM-CISL
The pilot agreement will concern the employees of the company IUVO srl, an organizational unit of Pontedera, which deals with the design of exoskeletons in the context of "industry 4.0" activities. Exoskeletons are external cybernetic devices capable of enhancing the physical abilities of workers and above all of reducing fatigue and the more onerous postural loads.
“Since 2016 within the FCA group we have been experimenting, in particular in the FCA central structures in Turin, flexible working methods that carefully consider the balance between work and private life, today for the first time we are applying a real With our own smart-working agreement, our goal as FIM-CISL - highlights Ferdinando Uliano, national secretary in charge of the auto sector - is to verify the possibility of extending it to other FCA companies in the next group contract expiring on 31 December 2018 " .
“Even if it concerns a small company of the FCA group, with about 15 employees and highly professional staff, it is particularly innovative – Bentivogli reiterates the FIM-CISL general secretary – in that the worker will have to carry out his work at the headquarters for 20% of the contractual working hours. Therefore, the worker will be able to carry out up to 80% of his work away from his workplace, equipped with the appropriate work tools (a company laptop and smartphone), thus being able to largely reconcile his professional activity with his private one. The disconnection slot was defined from 20pm to 8.30am".
Lastly, Uliano explains that “We have also planned a preparatory training course for the pilot project, in particular with reference to health and safety aspects. The Welfare Commission defined by the CCSL (Specific Collective Labor Agreement) will monitor the progress of the pilot project in order to evaluate the potential, the organizational aspects of smart working, to its liking by the workers and to evaluate the opportunity for its structural discipline".
