Liver-transplant worker sacking not OK (2)

(ANSA) - Rome, March 9 - Labour Minister Giuliano Poletti said Thursday a northern Italian engineering firm's sacking of a worker after he returned eight months after a liver transplant was "inconceivable, unacceptable, and wrong". "If someone is in a situation like this," Poletti said, "the firm must take on the responsibility for guaranteeing him an opportunity. If the media reports are true, it is a very serious mistake which the company must immediately rectify".
    Oerlikon Graziano, an engineering firm at Rivoli near Turin, on Wednesday was reported to have sacked the worker, Antonio Forchione, 55. "They examined me and said I was unfit to work...then I got the dismissal letter last Monday," said Forchione. He said he would sue the company for unfair dismissal, seeking compensation. Trade unions FIM, FIOM and UILM declared a two-hour strike on all shifts.