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Retail Retail Trade, Except Of Motor Vehicles And Motorcycles Retail Sale Via Stalls And Markets Or Other 47.91 - Retail sale via mail order houses or via Internet
100 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
2 May 2018
Employment effect (start)
31 May 2018
Foreseen end date
Description
On 2 May 2018 online retailer Amazon announced the creation of 100 new jobs in Italy. The new jobs will be created in a new sorting deposit in Buccinasco, a town in the Milan hinterland, which will come into operation within few weeks from the announcement.
According to the company, the new hirings will take place through open-ended full-time contracts. Amazon's hiring policy does not entail the use of subcontracting to workers cooperatives, a practice highly common in the Italian logistics industry. Such company policy have been praised by Italian trade unions, which, however, have also strongly criticised the poor working conditions suffered by Amazon workers in other branches.
Sources
3 May 2018: Il Sole 24 Ore
3 May 2018: Il corriere della sera
Citation
Eurofound (2018), Amazon, Business expansion in Italy, factsheet number 93924, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/93924.
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