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Administrative Services Services To Buildings And Landscape Activities Cleaning Activities 81.2 - Cleaning activities
669 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
28 June 2017
Employment effect (start)
31 July 2017
Foreseen end date
30 November 2017
Description
Roma Multiservizi, a facility management company operating in Rome, is to dismiss 669 employees.
The company, controlled by the Municipality of Rome through its in-house company AMA (51%), and by a large cooperative, Manutencoop (49%) has been discontinued the subcontracting agreement issued in 2016 concerning cleaning activities of underground stations, rolling stock and buses for the local public transport company (ATAC). In fact, those services have recently been assigned by means of public bids to new providers.
Subsequently, the management opened a collective dismissal procedure for the involved staff.
Unions are taking part in negotiations aimed at safeguarding redundant workers. They also called the Municipality of Rome to end subcontracting public services, opting for the hiring back of the involved workers by in-house companies, like AMA and ATAC. In the meantime, the municipality of Rome underwrote its commitment to make sure redundant workers will not be left without a job.
Sources
28 June 2017: Roma Today
29 June 2017: Il Fatto Quotidiano
3 July 2017: Askanews
4 July 2017: Rassegna
Citation
Eurofound (2017), Roma Multiservizi, Internal restructuring in Italy, factsheet number 91528, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/91528.
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