The redundancies risk overheating the autumn of the banks and it will take all the ability of the Mussari-Micheli tandem of the ABI to avoid lacerations. The accounting of the redundancies is merciless: in addition to Mps, which in total has to reduce the staff by 4.600 units (but partly with the sale of assets) there is the case of Bpm (700 redundancies) on the table, but also that of Banco Popolare (about a thousand redundancies), Popolare di Bari (250), Unicredit (3.500), Intesasanpaolo (5.000), Ubi (1.578).
A table between Abi and trade unions is already open but, fortunately, yesterday the text of the decree on social safety nets in the bank appeared in the Official Gazette. It is essentially a question of the new Redundancy Fund and the introduction of the so-called expansive solidarity contracts. At the bank, the early retirement allowance will be reduced by 8% but income support checks are ready. However, a circular from INPS is still needed to make the new legislation and the new Fund operational, which is eagerly awaited by banks and workers.
