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AlmavivA Contact: in Palermo, an employment agreement

AlmavivA Contact: in Palermo, an employment agreement

01-06-2018

AlmavivA Contact: in Palermo, an employment agreement

Rome, 1st June 2018 - An employment agreement based on quality, efficiency and sustainability, aimed at achieving a balance, safeguarding occupational continuity and supporting the revamping of the AlmavivA Contact site in Palermo. These are the key points of the proposal presented to trade union representatives today by the Company at a meeting held in the Sicilian capital, to consistently fulfil the commitments outlined and confirmed by the agreement signed on 15th May this year.

The main courses of action in the Agreement include:

  • the progressive growth of operational turnover;
  • the planned reduction of welfare support measures (short-term no longer available under law), still required for the non-traumatic management of redundancies;
  • the full restoration of all wage packets, currently suspended;
  • the application of a quality plan, in line with the binding actions outlined by trade union representatives, to raise efficiency and increase productivity.

The Company stresses that, at the AlmavivA Contact office in Palermo, the productivity index is lower than the national average by at least 13 points. Bringing Palermo in line with the average value of the other centres is a minimum objective, crucial in striving for site balance, without which the efforts made up to this point will not be enough to guarantee competitiveness.

“The content of the Agreement, which we hope will find a shared route in line with the signed trade union agreement, will guide our competitive capacity as to the quality of the service we provide, to help us enter a new phase,” stated Andrea Antonelli, AlmavivA Contact President. “Harvesting all the institutional attention with which the Sicilian Regional Authority and the Palermo City Council are following the situation, the company is making an extraordinary effort on all fronts, from the constant support requested from the Group to the weighty consequences of the Alitalia crisis, and on a commercial level it is working to expand the development of its activities. This significant result should, however, be supported by a clear upgrade in efficiency and productivity levels as an essential requirement for the sustainability of the production site.”