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Retail Retail Trade, Except Of Motor Vehicles And Motorcycles Retail Sale In Non-Specialised Stores 47.19 - Other retail sale in non-specialised stores
158 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
24 May 2019
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
Description
The retail group Gruppo Grancasa confirmed 158 redundancies initiated through different collective dismissal procedures by several companies belonging to the group (Grancasa S.p.A., Mercatone di Desenzano, S.r.l., Mercatone of Umbria S.r.l. and Gest Due S.r.l.). The Sarzana shop will dimiss 12 out of 47 workers.
The trade unions complained that the company refused any attempt to find alternative solutions to dismissals and rejected all the proposals that the union delegation advanced at various meetings at the crisis unit of the Ministry of Economic Development. Two days of strike were announced by the unions for May 26 and 27 in the hope that these initiatives may foster further negotiations.
Eurofound (2019), Gruppo Grancasa, Internal restructuring in Italy, factsheet number 97782, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/97782.
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