All the new branches in Bnl-Bnp Paribas

19 October 20213 years ago babelfish

What is really happening in BNL between the top management of the bank and the trade unions. Facts, background and insights. Emanuela Rossi's article

No longer just press releases and principals: the trade unions could move on to mobilize against the project of the Bnl-Bnp Paribas group to close numerous agencies throughout the country and above all to outsource about 900 workers. A choice that, according to Fabi, First Cisl, Fisac Cgil, Uilca and Unisin, “unloads the total weight of an announced disservice on the increasingly defenseless clientele, with the consequent abandonment of the economic fabric of the territory”.

It should also be remembered that in the last weeks of the year the closing of the sale of 80% of Axepta is expected – which will lead to the exit of 110 employees – and that at the beginning of 2021 40% of Bnl Finance was sold, specialized in the sale of the fifth to Poste. Even these operations that have aroused controversy and tensions between the company and the trade unions.

Here are the latest news.

DEBATE ON A PARLIAMENTARY QUESTION

In political and trade union circles, a parliamentary question by the Democratic Party is being discussed: there are those who interpreted it as an indirect criticism of the bank's top management (given that the BNL spokesman intervened through the press, correcting some worrying information for the unions contained in the text) and there are those who instead believe that the question seems to have had more the effect of facilitating the bank in replying by reassuring that there is no risk of job loss than that of sustaining the ongoing trade union battle .

THE MEETING BETWEEN BNL AND TRADE UNIONS

A meeting was held last Friday 15 between the top management of the bank (including the COO and the deputy general manager) and the group delegations integrated by the National Secretariats. The comparison – according to the reconstruction of Start – still remains firm to the request of the unions to remove from the table the sales of branches for over 830 workers (to which the over 100 of Axepta sold to Worldline are added) in order to be able to face the repercussions deriving from the reorganization which provides, among other things, the closure of 135 branches (out of 700) with consequent direct impacts in terms of change of activities, duties and workplace for about 280 colleagues and indirectly for many more. The reconversion of many colleagues towards those activities on which the bank intends to focus, the so-called direct channel for retail customers but also for corporate and SMEs, is an issue that should be addressed, without the boulder of sales.

THE UNITARY COMMUNICATION

"The trade unions – reads a unitary statement signed by Fabi, Fisac, Firs, Uilca and Unisin and dated 19 October – interrupted the meeting because, in a healthy company, there are still impassable roads for us that sacrifice 10% employment. Distances remain Sidereal! The Syndicate is opposed to any transfer operation and the only repercussions it intends to manage are those that can allow people to remain in the company and in the group. The union, therefore, reserves the right to communicate its decisions to the company after an in-depth reflection ".

WHAT HAPPENED DURING THE MEETING

During the meeting, the bank provided the hiring data resulting from the union agreements of recent years which provided for the hiring of over 550 young people in a relationship for Q100 and graduation redemption of more than 1100 colleagues on a voluntary basis. of 1 hiring every two exits and we are absolutely late: "While satisfied with the stabilization of many young people deserving of trust in this bank, we believe the result so far consolidated absolutely unsatisfactory and we require further investigation because to date it is inadmissible that the balance of staff is inadequate with respect to the commitments undertaken, otherwise there are no prerequisites in terms of mutual reliability that have always characterized the trade union confrontation model in BNL ”, Tommaso Vigliotti, national secretary of Unisin, told Start .

THE STATE OF RELATIONS BETWEEN BNL AND TRADE UNIONS

At the moment the game is essentially on stand-by, add other union sources: the bank insists on continuing the sale of activities and workers, declaring itself available only to the management of relapses and not to open a discussion to identify solutions that can maintain the workers in the Group. "The trade union of the sector as well as that of BNL – adds Vigliotti – has never shied away from managing the fallout of operations which, however, the law allows companies to carry out unilaterally, as always in a responsible manner, this same syndicate has always contributed to the relaunch of the company; now, however, we are faced with a hypothesis of corporate deconstruction of dimensions and unprecedented impacts, absolutely weak in terms of legal compliance, even more in consideration of recent jurisprudence on the subject, which would have repercussions on the entire sector, on the future of over 800 families and, considering the results ensured up to now by the previous industrial plans, also on the future of the BNL, therefore we do not intend to be complicit in any way to an announced disaster and we invite the company once again to review its plans. In fact, we will be ready to confront each other in order to identify solutions other than the sale of workers, but the company must give a signal in this sense ".

BECAUSE THE UNIONS ARE ON THE FOOT OF WAR

According to Startmag's findings , seven company branch sales are at stake, involving the back office and administrative services for a total of 566 employees at risk. The partner concerned is Accenture, through an existing company of the group with registration in ABI and with proprietary offices throughout Italy. Problems in sight also for the Information Technology Department which is part of the sale of the Banking Services Platform. It is feared – due to the closure of 135 branches – for at least 270 workers. The transferee company will be a 100% Capgemini-owned NewCo.

As for the logistics and archive activities, which take place in the offices of Pratica di Mare, near Rome, the situation is different because they would be sold within the perimeter of the back office, but would remain in the same structure owned by Bnl. Therefore, no problem for the workers who, moreover, have been forcibly hired in recent years following judgments that have declared an interposition of manpower of the personnel of the companies to which the activity was contracted out (outsourcing). Basically, the sources point out to Startmag , with the sale of a company branch we want to "free" personnel hired due to judgments of the judge.

THE RISK OF MOBILIZATION

This is the situation that led the unions last week to threaten mobilization if the BNL "were to continue to pursue its intent to get 10% of the workforce out of the sector, creating serious situations of job insecurity". In fact, Fabi, First Cisl, Fisac Cgil, Uilca and Unisin assert, the “feared outsourcing of about 900 employees announced by the Bnl Bnp Paribas group” weighs heavily. According to the trade unions, as stated in a note of the past few days "the risk of a closure of the negotiations with a stalemate is all there" as they declare "the total unwillingness to endorse, beyond the well-known good intentions of technological / managerial change, of innovation, illustrated in every good self-respecting project, an industrial plan focused only on cost cutting, staff reduction, amalgamation (closure) of agencies and shamefully not even a new hiring ".

In the joint note they then pointed out that "the company was forced to move the date of the opening of the procedure from 25 September to 5 October as the unions judged, rightly, despite the efforts of the managing director (Elena Goitini, ed) , completely insufficient and lacking in basic elements, the information contained in both the first meeting to present it in the letter initiating the procedure. The company took action until October 15 to respond to the firm grievances of all the unions ”. Fabi, First, Fisac, Uilca and Unisin continue: "We have learned that Bnl has put in place extensive information for workers interested in outsourcing, giving detailed information on their next destiny, on the companies concerned, on the duration of the contracts and on how to transfer. This improvised company initiative is not admissible during the course of the trade union confrontation procedure which was also activated on these matters ".

This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/economia/tutte-le-nuove-sportellate-in-bnl-bnp-paribas/ on Tue, 19 Oct 2021 07:51:49 +0000.