Telecom Italia, new details for the redundancy plan. In 2018 there could be 4.500 employees leaving through incentives, early retirements based on the Fornero Law and new hires. Il Messaggero wrote it exactly one week after the meeting with the unions, set for Thursday 18 January.
It is on that occasion that the negotiations on the redundancies will start which the company, it should be remembered, intends to conclude with an agreement with the union. But let's look at the numbers that employee representatives will have to face: around 4.500 employees should leave the group this year using the Fornero Law while another 3.000 – thanks to the tool of “expansive solidarity” – should leave their place for new hires. This would favor the generational turnover envisaged in the three-year plan defined by Ad Amos Genish. The company intends to use – in continuity with the path started by the former CEO Flavio Cattaneo – all the legal instruments made available by the legislation. This would levitate the number of exits up to even 11.000-12.000 people, compensated however by 3 new entries. To manage the plan, Telecom Italia would offer a dowry of 700-800 million.
The objective of the plan is to accelerate generational turnover and the digitization of processes to acquire the tools necessary to renew the offer to customers and the business. The tools to achieve the objectives of the plan also take into account the "expansive solidarity", as we said, or the potential reduction of 10-20 minutes a day of working hours to support new hires. There is also article 4 of the Fornero: the Budget law ha extended the isopension up to 7 years, an early retirement measure introduced by the Fornero Law which allowed employees to leave work early for reasons of redundancy, up to a maximum of 4 years.
Isopension is one income support benefit, and not an early pension, even if it corresponds to the amount of the pension, except for the notional contributions paid by the employer for the period of redundancy. The accreditation of the social security contributions due up to the date of accrual of the requirements for the pension is also foreseen.
I requirements to benefit from the isopension are:
- be employed in a company with more than 15 employees,
- be 7 years from meeting the requirements for retirement,
- the presence of a company union agreement on the matter,
- the conclusion of a further agreement with the company, with which consent is given to the termination of the relationship.
