The revolution of Daniele Fortini, CEO of AMA, the municipal company that deals with waste collection in Rome, continues at a brisk pace. Yesterday the board of directors of Ama, met urgently by CEO Fortini, gave the go-ahead to the dismissal of 37 employees (out of 41 total) and 23 drivers hired in 2008 for direct calls still in the workforce.
The decision of the board of directors comes on the proposal of CEO Fortini after the diffusion of the motivations of the conviction sentence issued by the Court of Rome against the former managing director Franco Panzironi and some former executives.
In Ama's note we read that "the reasons given in the sentence, unanimously considered by the current Ama board of directors to be rigorous and impeccable - reads the note issued by the company - have in fact ascertained that the hirings in question are to be considered illegitimate, making obtain an unjust pecuniary advantage for the subjects employed".
In the reasons for the sentence, the judges, who sentenced the former CEO of Ama Panzironi to 5 years and 3 months in prison, explain that the 41 direct recruitments that took place in Ama between 2008 and 2009 "were the result of arbitrary and patronage decisions”. The judges of the seventh section of the Court also highlighted how "many of the people hired were related to kinship or affinity with political exponents or people close to them and were an expression of the will, not at all transparent, of the managing director".
