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Education Education Other Education 85.59 - Other education n.e.c.
110 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
1 October 2014
Employment effect (start)
1 January 2015
Foreseen end date
1 January 2015
Description
Vocational training provider Ecap is to dismiss its 110 workers.
The organisation has been recently involved in a legal inquiry concerning mainly illicit use of public funding by means of fake invoices and dummy companies. In April, it interrupted the provision of some front office services, and in November, few weeks after the announcement of the dismissals, the regional council of Sicily revoked the authorisation of Ecap for the provision of training. This took place in the frame of wider investigation involving vocational training institutes in Sicily.
Dismissals will affect about 30 front-office officers and 80 trainers.
Workers are organising sit-ins, and one of them threatened to blow himself up.
Sources
21 November 2014: Sicilia On Press
22 November 2014: Sicilia On Press
12 December 2014: La Repubblica
2 February 2015: Giornale di Sicilia
Citation
Eurofound (2014), Ecap, Closure in Italy, factsheet number 91307, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/91307.
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