Black clouds on Sky Italia, here’s how many workers will be cut
"Changes in the macroeconomic scenario in the last year" force Sky to put 1,200 workers in front of a forced choice: voluntary incentivized exodus or professional reconversion. The facts, numbers and criticisms of the trade unions
"During the meeting with Sky's CEO for the presentation of the 2024-2025 Plan, the Company illustrated a cost reorganization process that will affect 1,200 workers of Sky Italia, both internal and external". This is what we read in a note from the national secretariats of Slc Cgil, Fistel Cisl and Uilcom Uil.
Therefore, the number of employees concerned rose by 400, with respect to corporate communications. This is because "the redefinition of the transformation plan – explains Sky Italia – foresees an impact on 800 additional resources, including internal and external workers, which are added to the 400 job positions already foreseen in the agreement signed with the social partners in 2021 ".
WHAT FUTURE FOR THE 1200 SKY WORKERS
"From what emerged in this first discussion – the unions report – the workers concerned will have to choose between an incentivized voluntary exodus (up to the capacity of the company budget allocated for exodus), or a professional reconversion towards the activities that will be re-internalized in this two-year period , with a particular impact on the Customer sector” underlines the note.
THE VERSION OF SKY
Sky, which for its part speaks of an extensive upskilling, reskilling, insourcing and voluntary exit plan, illustrates that it "expects an impact on 800 additional resources, including internal and external workers, which add to the 400 job positions already envisaged in the agreement signed with the social partners in 2021. This is a very ambitious professional retraining project – to be developed together with the trade union organizations – which responds to the need to redefine the processes and the organizational structure, including that of internal customer care and which it also envisages extensive insourcing of activities in various areas, including those of technical support for IT systems, post-production and production activities, and support for the active cycle”.
THE FEAR OF THE UNIONS
“For us there is no room, in this company as in the rest of the sector, for different choices than what has been done up to now. We will negotiate every single situation, with particular attention to the re-internalisation and reskilling processes of all the personnel involved, to verify that it is actually a concrete path, and not a simple attempt to buy some time before more solutions drastic,” reads the note.
The trade unions state that "while being aware of the difficulties experienced by the world of broadcasting and traditional pay-TV, a reorganization that affects 1,200 people (internal and external) out of a workforce of just over 4,000 represents an element that could become disruptive if these tools put in place are not used effectively”.
DAMAGE DUE TO PIRACY IN FOOTBALL
The piracy suffered by the various pay TVs with the famous "pezzotti" also and above all affected the Group's accounts. A phenomenon that not only is not being curbed, but which a few weeks ago had brought the number 1 of Serie A, Luigi De Siervo and the president of Asstel – Assotelecomunicazioni, Massimo Sarmi , to a curious clash over alleged responsibilities in this regard.
Only at the end of 2022 was the largest operation against this kind of audiovisual crime ever carried out in Italy: 70 people under investigation, for various reasons, for crimes of transnational criminal association, fraud, audiovisual piracy, transfer fraudulent of assets, impersonation, forgery of documents and receiving stolen goods.
The investigation, coordinated by the magistrates of the Catania prosecutor's office, was conducted in the field by the men of the postal and communications police of the Etna capital. Searches and seizures were carried out in different parts of Italy. In Catania, Palermo, Trapani, Naples, Salerno, Rome but also abroad and in particular in England, Germany and Tunisia. And it is abroad that, the investigators ascertained, the servers were installed through which the signals of pay TV broadcasts such as Sky, Netflix, Dazn, Amazon Prime and Mediaset were then illegally sorted.
The organization's turnover was enormous: 10 million every thirty days. But the damage caused to pay TVs was much greater: 30 million euros of lost revenue per month. The end users reached by the pirated service were around one million. And everyone risks a fine. The cost of each pirated subscription was around ten euros a month, which was paid through credits on post office pay cards, often made out to citizens unaware of everything. On the other hand, payment was made directly in cash.
“It is a very important investigation – commented Ivano Gabrielli, director of the postal and communications police service – Audiovisual piracy creates enormous damage to pay TV and all the workers who work around the world of entertainment. This – he underlined – is only the tip of the iceberg”.
In this sense, the pay-TV giant receives the message that emerged from the meeting between the Minister for Sport and Youth, Andrea Abodi and the president of Fapav, Federico Bagnoli Rossi, on the issue of the fight against piracy. "The essential role of Agcom must be accompanied as soon as possible by a new anti-piracy law already under discussion in Parliament in recent weeks", declared Bagnoli Rossi, obtaining the maximum commitment from the exponent of the executive.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/economia/nuvoloni-neri-su-sky-italia-1-200-lavoratori-out/ on Mon, 13 Mar 2023 09:33:52 +0000.