Electrolux, redundancies are arriving in Italy too: they are 222- Corriere.it

There will be 222 (and not 300) the redundancies of Electrolux in Italy. In detail, we are talking about 101 employees and 121 workers of the Swedish multinational that produces household appliances and which has factories throughout the country. The redundancies, based on a meeting held by the group’s top management with the unions, will be distributed as follows: 96 in Forl (Forl-Cesena), 76 in Porcia (Pordenone), 13 in Cerreto d’Esi (Ancona), 2 in Assago (Milan), 10 in Solaro (Milan) and 25 in Susegana (Treviso). The operation should be completed by the spring and provides for the use of Naspi with incentives.

The crisis

The company’s decision comes in the face of a market for household appliances in crisis due to the drop in consumption and the heavy losses recorded in the third quarter.Besides that

for supply chain issues and weaker market conditions. Already in October, Electrolux had announced the cut of 4,000 jobs of work as a result of the abandonment of the market in Russia following the war in Ukraine. The sale of the Russian subsidiary generated a capital loss of approximately 350 million Swedish crowns (approximately 32.5 million euros). In the third quarter, the Swedish group recorded a net loss of 605 million Swedish crowns (55.43 million euros).

Temporary workers

The crisis also affects temporary contracts in the company

. The national secretary Fim Cisl Massimiliano Nobis writes: The uncertainty of the market on the achievement of the volumes in the budget for 2023 will not allow the stabilization of workers currently with fixed-term contracts. Possible layoff periods. At the table it was agreed to address the issue of redundancies in the next meeting on 10 January, defining that the exits must only be voluntary and the social safety nets used must be conservative. Gianluca Ficco, Uilm national secretary and head of the household appliances sector adds: On the positive side, the company management has declared that it does not want to proceed with unilateral acts; as a union we have already declared that we can share exclusively voluntary incentivized exit paths and exclusively conservative social safety nets. We also ask to agree a right of way on future hires for temporary workers who have not been or will not be confirmed.