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Education Education Other Education 85.59 - Other education n.e.c.
500 - 800 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
3 February 2016
Employment effect (start)
16 April 2016
Foreseen end date
5 May 2016
Description
Regional vocational training provider Ial Sicilia is to dismiss all its 800 staff.
The company is under liquidation following investigations which begun in 2013. At that time, the region of Sicily carried out inspections in Ial Sicilia, scrutinised closely their activities and eventually revoked their authorisation to provide training, alleging misuse of public funding. Similar cases arose for a number of other local training providers, leading to restrictions in granting public funding and authorisation for training provision.
Workers, mainly clerks and trainers, who have so far received temporary unemployment benefits, are now to lose their jobs.
Unions asked the local and national governments to intervene with measures safeguarding the jobs or the income of workers of Ial Sicilia as well as other regional vocational training providers that have closed or went bankrupt over the last years.
Sources
23 March 2016: Live Sicilia
14 April 2016: La Repubblica
16 May 2016: tempostretto
Citation
Eurofound (2016), Ial Sicilia, Bankruptcy in Italy, factsheet number 91246, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/91246.
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