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AlmavivA Contact on the statements by Mr. Zingaretti, President of the Region of Lazio

AlmavivA Contact on the statements by Mr. Zingaretti, President of the Region of Lazio

06-10-2016

AlmavivA Contact on the statements by Mr. Zingaretti, President of the Region of Lazio

Rome, 6 October 2016 – Today’s impromptu statements by the President of the Region of Lazio, on the situation of AlmavivA Contact, appear to be based on an inaccurate knowledge of the actual facts.

In his statement, he expresses “great concern”, after years of total silence, and despite the appeals repeatedly addressed to him, to no avail, regarding the failure to enforce the existing laws, the serious distortions that are stifling the call center industry and the dramatic conditions of many businesses and workers in the region.

He calls for “the implementation of adequate measures” – which measures? We ask ourselves – when the regional government he represents recently negatively distinguished itself with the procurement procedure for awarding the Recup service contract, fuelling an ongoing and extremely detrimental trend in issuing procurement notices and awarding public contracts at prices lower than the labor costs set out in the relevant national agreements.

And, last but not least, regarding the allegations that the Company supposedly aims to “exploit the dismissals to achieve a competitive edge”, a rather disquieting opinion from such an authoritative institutional figure, we would like to respectfully inform Mr. Zingaretti that AlmavivA Contact’s Rome facility has been using social shock absorbers, for four years now, to tackle redundancies that exceed 50% of the workforce and that, in 2016 alone, we have recorded losses of over nine million euros on revenues of seventeen million.