AMA trash collection agency
president Daniele Fortini said Thursday he has convened the
board of directors to talk about firing staff hired through
nepotism.
"I will ask (the board)...to fire 41 administrative staff
who according to a court ruling obtained unfair monetary
advantage by being hired illegitimately," he said.
"These are not discriminatory firings but rather the
enactment of a ruling...that explicitly says those people are
enjoying an advantage procured through injustice".
Rome Mayor Ignazio Marino said last Friday AMA must fire
employees who were hired thanks to nepotism.
"AMA must now get on with the firings, as is right and
lawful," he said after a court ruled earlier in the day that it
had found some were hired based on "cronyism and arbitrary
reasons".
The same court on May 27 sentenced Franco Panzironi,
formerly the powerful head of AMA, and three other senior AMA
managers to five years three months on abuse of office and other
charges in connection with nepotism in hiring.
Also convicted were former personnel manager Luciano
Cedrone, former examining commission president Bruno Frigerio,
and ex-legal office chief Gianfrancesco Regard.
Panzironi had been arrested previously in connection with
the so-called Rome Mafia investigation into a crime syndicate
made up of businessmen, gangsters and politicians that allegedly
muscled in on lucrative Rome city contracts.
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