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Construction Construction Of Buildings And Infrastructure Engineering Civil Engineering 42.12 - Construction of railways and underground railways
100 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
9 December 2016
Employment effect (start)
22 February 2017
Foreseen end date
23 February 2017
Description
The construction consortium Fer.Gen. announced the imminent dismissal of its 100 workers employed in Genova.
The consortium was awarded a tender for the improvement of infrastructures of the Genova railway juncture in 2009, with a large price discount.
Yet, works are experiencing significant delay, also due to the absence of places where to dispose of waste from the construction site, and there is a risk of the termination of the contract with the client, a subsidiary of the public group controlling Italian railways (Rete Ferroviaria Italiana, RFI).
Dismissals should affect 70 blue-collar workers and 30 white-collar workers.
Negotiations are currently in place between unions, the management and local authorities. Unions are pushing for a fast resolution of the impasse, possibly by assigning works to other applicants of the tender upon application of the ‘social clause’, i.e. the obligation for the awarded company to hire back Fer.Gen. redundant workers.
Sources
29 November 2016: Il Secolo XIX
30 November 2016: Rassegna Sindacale
30 November 2016: Primocanale.it
8 December 2016: Primocanale.it
Citation
Eurofound (2016), Fer. Gen., Closure in Italy, factsheet number 89426, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/89426.
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