Burberry, severance pay or dismissal: Foxtown emails and 57 minutes to decide

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Burberry, severance pay or dismissal: Foxtown mall employees an email and 57 minutes to decide

Minutes counted for one work place. After the case of Gkn Driveline, a Florentine automotive company led by an English fund, which fired its 422 workers, communicating the closure of the site “by pec, without any notice, not even to Confindustria”. And the story of Brianza Giannetti Fad Wheel, which announced the closure of the plant on two feet, sending 152 workers home with an e-mail message, is now the turn of a high fashion brand.

Different sector, but same communication methods: Burberry on Friday displaced the numerous employees, especially frontier workers, of the Foxtown shopping center in Mendrisio, in the Canton of Ticino, on the outskirts of Italy, with an email with a clear content: 57 minutes to decide whether to accept the resignation with severance pay or risk being fired without any reimbursement. The email, he reveals Republic, had been sent by the boutiques management at 3.33 pm on Friday, then arrived at the employees at 4.30 pm.

Despite two labor unions, UNIA and OCST, were aware of Burberry’s intention to dismiss 15 of Mendrisio’s 35 employees, mostly Italian cross-border workers, and had agreed to enter into negotiations with a view to obtaining a social plan, he continues Republic, the British luxury brand would have proved, from the outset, according to the unions, “uncooperative, arrogant and disrespectful of the dignity of workers”.

“Burberry’s law firm- explained to Republic Giorgio Fonio, of the OCST union – he wrote to us, communicating his willingness to open a discussion. Obviously our goal is to get a social plan worthy of the name and not 57 minutes to decide what to do “.

The downtown Foxtown, then concludes Republic, last year alone it announced a loss of 50 million francs, due to the 60-day closure caused by the pandemic. But this does not justify the choice of communication methods, which have (inevitably) generated protests and controversies.

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