Deputy Industry Minister Teresa
Bellanova has called on the AlmavivA Group to roll back planned
layoffs of almost 3,000 call center workers in Italy, union
sources said Wednesday.
The sources attended a meeting with government and
management at the industry ministry in Rome.
The Italian information technology group employs some
35,000 people, 14,000 of them in Italy. The parent company
announced a reorganization plan in March, citing "the
increasingly structural nature of the crisis of the Italian call
center industry".
That plan includes axing 1,670 jobs in Palermo, 918 in
Rome, and 400 in Naples. However the government is reportedly
willing to pitch in with jobless benefits through the end of the
year, the sources said.
AlmavivA employees in Italy are were on strike Wednesday,
with some demonstrating in Naples.
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