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Manufacturing Manufacture Of Basic Metal And Fabricated Metal Products Manufacture Of Fabricated Metal Products, Except Machinery And Equipment 25.99 - Manufacture of other fabricated metal products n.e.c.
85 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
30 January 2019
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
Description
The company of design housewares Alessi announced 85 redunduncies, out of its total current workforce constituted of 314 employees, in Omegna.
The decision is connected with the difficult economic situation the company is facing and its need to reduce personnel costs, as defined in the new industrial plan.
The company intends to use the Wage Guarantee fund, but the unions pushes for solidarity contracts.The trade unions argued that the decision to declare the redundancies can be no longer postponed and it seems the best way to assure a future to the company. The union were also reassured that there will be no offshoring, and that the plant is at no risk of closure because it continues to be considered a strategic element for the future.
Eurofound (2019), Alessi, Internal restructuring in Italy, factsheet number 96612, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/96612.
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