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Financial Services Financial And Insurance Activities Financial Service Activities, Except Insurance And Pension Funding 64.19 - Other monetary intermediation
2,700 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
3 February 2016
Employment effect (start)
30 June 2016
Foreseen end date
31 December 2018
Description
Unicredit, an Italian leading banking group, signed an agreement envisaging 2,700 exits, and 500 new hirings.
The staff reduction is part of the 2015-2018 business plan, entailing overall 5,100 redundancies. Unicredit and unions already reached an agreement over 2,400 redundancies and 800 new hirings in June 2014 (see UnicreditIT-2014) and underwrote to negotiate further 2,700 layoffs in 2015.
Negotiations have now been concluded, entailing 2,700 incentivised early dismissals and a turnover to take place mainly by means of 500 new apprenticeship contracts, and by retaining 450 apprentices.
Discussions are still ongoing for the further 540 dismissals announced by the company in the late 2015 (see UnicreditIT-2015).
Sources
20 January 2016: Il Sole 24 Ore
4 February 2016: Il Sole 24 Ore
Citation
Eurofound (2016), Unicredit, Internal restructuring in Italy, factsheet number 86506, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/86506.
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