Here’s how Sky Italia will mark the number of employees
Sky Italia has reached an agreement with the trade unions to mitigate the employment impact of its new transformation plan. All the details and hot dossiers for the company (including the appointment of the head of the company)
Sky Italia, the Italian division of the television services group founded by Rupert Murdoch, has reached an agreement with the national unions on the company's transformation plan for the two-year period 2021-2022.
DIGITIZATION AND SLIMMING FOR SKY ITALIA
As reported by Ansa , the agreement will make it possible to mitigate the impact on jobs due to the new Sky Italia business plan, which aims at digitization, streamlining the operating model and greater integration with the group.
WHAT THE AGREEMENT WITH THE TRADE UNIONS PROVIDES FOR
The agreement with the trade unions (SLC CGIL, UILCOM and Fistel CISL) provides for a series of options for Sky Italia employees: internal mobility, the internationalization of some activities, the updating of the professional skills of some figures, isopension (the so-called "exodus of elderly workers") and voluntary exits. For the latter, an incentive package of up to forty months is planned for 2021, depending on the seniority of the company.
THE PEOPLE INVOLVED
Sky Italia's transformation plan will affect 153 people for the remainder of 2021, and another 501 people for 2022.
WHAT SKY SAYS
The company stated that the agreement meets "principles of social sustainability" and said it is committed "not to take unilateral actions, in the spirit of constructive and responsible dialogue that inspired it".
STAFF CUTS
In recent months, Sky Italia had announced staff cuts that will affect 25 percent of both internal (five thousand employees in all) and external (six thousand) workers. The layoffs, the company explained, would be spread over a period of four years, until 2024.
THE SKY PLAN 2021-2024
Organizational streamlining is, as mentioned, one of the main objectives that Sky Italia has set itself in the four-year transformation plan 2021-2024. A plan which, as Corriere della Sera wrote, aims at overall savings of 300 million euros and “will follow three directions”: centralization of some processes; operational simplification through digitization; shifting the focus on activities with greater added value (the Sky Original TV series and the NOW platform).
According to the Corriere , these are choices designed to improve Sky Italia's competitiveness compared to other video on demand platforms such as Netflix and Amazon's Prime Video.
LOSS OF RIGHTS OF SERIE A
In addition to competition from the two US platforms, Sky Italia will have to deal with the loss of the Serie A football rights, awarded by the British DAZN . At the auction, writes the Corriere , Sky “offered about 30 million less a year than in the previous three years, 750 against 780, against 840 for the Tim-DAZN consortium”.
THE SUBSTITUTE OF IBARRA
The company is also in a phase of reorganization of the top management. The executive vice president programming Nicola Maccanico left the company to take up the position of managing director of Istituto Luce Cinecittà. And then, at the end of July, the CEO of Sky Italia, Maximo Ibarra, left Sky Italia to become the CEO of Engineering, an Italian software and IT services company.
According to the indiscretions reported by Paolo Madron's Tag43 , Ibarra's replacement could be Silvia Candiani, country manager of Microsoft Italy, or Andrea Duilio, recently appointed Chief Commercial Officer Consumer of Vodafone.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/economia/sky-tagli-dipendenti-accordo/ on Fri, 16 Jul 2021 13:47:47 +0000.