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Firing employees to relocate production will also become more difficult for companies in Abruzzo: the Government, in fact, is preparing the anti-relocation decree to intervene with severe measures on collective redundancies due to business termination.
The decree will be based on four fixed points: a six-month notice, a management plan for redundancies and reconversion, but also the introduction of sanctions and a black list for non-compliant companies. In all likelihood, the decree for greater protection of workers will be approved after the summer break. The purpose of the law is to strictly regulate the closures of production sites, mitigating the employment impact and using all the tools that can be activated for reconversion after having benefited from incentives and concessions to work in Italy.
IN ABRUZZO. “In Abruzzo, Sanmarco in Val di Sangro is worrying,” explains the regional secretary of CGIL Carmine Ranieri, «The manufacturer of bodies for light commercial vans Sevel has opened the mobility procedure for 50 employees. While among the old disputes still open there is the Betafence of Tortoreto. The metalworking company in profit wanted to relocate, but after strikes and demonstrations the worst seems to have been averted with the opening of a table at the Ministry of Economic Development still to be defined. LFoundry of Avezzano is also worrying “, he underlines,” although no intention of relocation has been communicated to us, the company has said that the main contract will close in 2023 and, at the moment, it has no intention of bringing other orders to the area “. An alarm bell for Ranieri who warns: «usually when companies do not give prospects for the future, the risk is always lurking. But to get a picture of the situation it is necessary to wait for the reopening after the summer holidays. As for the decree, many companies have benefited from the benefits, including the Covid extraordinary layoff, and then decided to leave. I find it useful “, concludes Ranieri,” that rules are placed on wild relocations only to maximize profits, we will evaluate all the details in the table with Minister Orlando “.
“A decree that helps to maintain the production of multinationals that play the game by lowering the cost of labor”, for the regional secretary CISL, Leo Malandra, «Therefore situations are welcome that tend to stabilize production where it has grown and where state funds have also been disbursed. Although there are no concrete risks, the Pilkington of San Salvo could potentially intend to go out and produce, as does the Stellaris Group which already has delocalized production in Poland for the Sevel Ducato ».
“Among the most attentive Abruzzo disputes”, adds the secretary of Uil Abruzzo, Michele Lombardo, “We have successfully and definitively closed the Yokohama of Ortona, we have saved the relocation of the Betafence of Tortoreto, while the Brioni di Penne and the historic Atr dispute of Colonnella and the bankruptcy of the Veco foundry of Martinsicuro are particularly worrying”, as also specified by the Uil referent in Teramo, Gianluca Di Girolamo.
THE DRAFT OF THE DECREE. But let’s see in detail what the draft of the decree provides.
In order to initiate collective redundancies due to cessation of activity, the company must first receive the approval of the plan to limit the impact on employment which it is required to present to the Ministry of Economic Development. In the absence or in the hypothesis in which the plan does not receive the ok, he will have to pay a 10 times higher dismissal ticket on each termination of the employment relationship (a contribution that can reach up to 90 thousand euros per worker) and for five years will not have access to state contributions and bonuses. The ban, upon approval, will affect companies with at least 250 employees in any case of cessation of activity or branch or production site regardless of the number of workers involved which must be at least five to be able to speak of collective dismissal to be applied in all those cases in whose cessation of activity is not determined by a crisis or by the risk of bankruptcy, but by the choice to relocate. The company that decides to close a production site in Italy to move it abroad must notify a specific series of institutional subjects: the Ministry of Labor, the Ministry of Economic Development, the National Agency for Active Policies, the Region and trade unions. This communication must allow the so-called right of alert for workers at least six months in advance, and must contain a series of elements such as the reason for the closure and the personnel involved.
In particular, the latter must indicate the economic, financial, technical or organizational reasons for the closure project; the number and professional profiles of the staff employed and the deadline for closure. Within the next 30 days, the company will have to appoint an advisor as a reference figure for the negotiations with the various institutional subjects. While within 90 days following the communication, he / she will have to submit a plan to mitigate the employment and economic repercussions associated with the closure. The latter must contain a series of elements including planned actions for the safeguarding of employment levels and interventions for the management of possible political redundancies active work from orientation to assistance to relocation, training and professional retraining) and any projects of reconversion of the production site.
The plan will be discussed and analyzed by a structure for the business crisis, in the presence of Regions, Anpal and unions, which will have to respond within 30 days. In the event that the plan is not sent, or in any case the established rules are not respected, the sanctions and the inclusion in a black list will be triggered.

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