Federmeccanica almost everyone receives a "no" in the ninth round of negotiation with the unions for the renewal of the metalworkers' contract. The meeting concerned Timetables, Smartworking, Maternity/Paternity leave, Procurement, Jobs Act, Availability and illness. According to Fim Cisl "correlating the 32 hours of PAR (paid annual leave) to the presence or maturation of the actual performance, even providing for the zeroing below 1.280 hours, is exemplary in reconfirming an archaic idea of work, of contradictory productivity with respect to the present and the future of work in the manufacturing industry”.
In a note, the metalworkers' union led by Marco Bentivogli explains that "the challenge to the employers' association continues: we will lead them to abandon these positions and take steps towards a schedule closer to the needs of the workers and the company also through the use of menu-based scheduling systems. We have rated positively hourly usage regarding parental leave and defining the 1 month schedule, the willingness to use the bank and the hour account to anticipate the retirement of older workers and our request to build guidelines on smart-working ".
The union also claims that yesterday's positive opening on the diffusion of decentralized bargaining is contradicted by the total closure of Federmeccanica, expressed today, on the development of territorial bargaining represents a re-edition of the anti-historic closure already seen in other contracts. “How can we think of developing decentralized bargaining for small businesses and making it usable and certain – he declares Marco Bentivogli – without opening up on territorial bargaining? 63% of companies have only the national contract, i.e. only one contractual level”.
Clash also on Jobs Act. “We apply the law,” Federmeccanica had said. "This position - replies the note from Fim Cisl - closes the possibility for those like Fim and Uilm who have never asked to boycott the application of the law but to make it manageable and fair also with respect to some ideological forcings that have only the purpose of increasing legal disputes".
Attachments: The Fim-Cisl press release
