Tim and the unions have reached a double agreement on redundancies from the telecommunications group. The agreements concern a total of over 4.600 workers and were reached on Wednesday, after a long confrontation between the company and the trade unions Slc Cgil, Fistel Cisl, Uilcom Uil and Ugl Tlc.
The first concerns 4.300 voluntary exits, which will take place gradually in two-year period 2019-2020 through the tool ofisopension – or “exodus of older workers” – foreseen by the Fornero law.
The mechanism allows you to retire up to a maximum of four years early (extended to seven for the three-year period 2018-2020 from last year's maneuver) provided that the company gives workers a check for an amount equivalent to the pension until completion the requirements for effective retirement. There is no penalty for employees, because the company is also required to pay contributions. The isopensione can only be used by companies that employ more than 15 employees on average and only after signing an agreement between the company, INPS and the workers' unions.
The second agreement concerns instead 314 other employees who, if they wish, will be able to leave the company as part of a procedure already started in 2017 - and which had registered a limited number of oppositions to withdrawal - using among the requisites also that of being in possession of the right to early retirement with "quota 100".
"With this agreement - comments Luciano Savant Levra, national secretary of Uilcom - in addition to the important opportunity given to the approximately 4.600 workers to leave Tim voluntarily and early, the redundancies declared in the 2018/2020 plan are managed in a non-traumatic way, which in addition to maintaining commitments signed previously increases voluntary redundancies by approximately 600 units. An important signal to move towards that normalization indicated in the new business plan which Tim has a great need for”.
