Why does Ita hit Alitalia employees?
What emerged from the hearing in the Transport Committee of the Chamber of Alfredo Altavilla, executive president of Ita Airways, and Fabio Lazzerini, at Ita, for the presentation of the airline's industrial plan
“We are not a Red Cross of the employees of the old Alitalia”.
This was stated by the executive president of Ita, Alfredo Altavilla, in a hearing at the Transport Commission of the Chamber to present together with the CEO, Fabio Lazzerini, the industrial plan of the new airline, 100% owned by the Mef and operational since last October 15.
"The parliamentarians asked about the fate of Alitalia employees considering that of the 2,800 workers expected to take off Ita has 2,235", notes the Corriere .
Already from the first meeting, the trade unions asked to enlarge the perimeter of Ita to the employees of the old airline (about 10 thousand), not only to the 2,800 envisaged by the newco. And to date, the company has not even hired all the former Alitalia workers that Ita said it had already hired on 15 October.
"I don't care what happens to those people" of the old Alitalia who were not hired by Ita, Altavilla replied. "It is not my problem because otherwise we will no longer become a company that has to stay on the market but a Red Cross of the employees of the old Alitalia, which I have no intention of being".
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THE NUMBERS OF 2021
"The revenues of 2021 were 50% less than the industrial plan, influenced by some factors: pandemic, then we did not win the Sardinia tender and we could not start the advertising campaign to sell tickets until 10 of October". Since Ita started in October "we have transported 1.26 million passengers, with a turnover of just under 90 million euros" explained Altavilla.
THE IMPORTANCE OF THE AGREEMENT FOR THE NEW CONTRACT
For the manager of the company, "the agreement with trade unions and professional organizations for the new contract had a very important role".
After the breakdown of negotiations in September, on 2 December Ita Airways signed the national contract with the sector unions. The agreement provides for "the hiring of another 4 thousand workers, by June 2022, with the necessary certifications and qualifications".
And with regard to the new hires, “potentially the election basin remains that of Alitalia”. “But recourse to professionalism from the outside is not excluded”, the president of Ita pointed out to Sole 24 Ore in December.
ITA SAVE ON STAFF
But the personal accounts do not add up.
In October, the newco spoke of hiring 2,800, "of which 1,500 sailors (pilots, hostesses and stewards) almost all from Alitalia and about 1,250 ground employees, the latter 30% from outside, especially managers" reported the Sun 24 hours.
As the Confindustria newspaper underlines today, "at the end of 2021" the cash was more than 400 million, more than the 250 million expected ", because less was invested. Part of the savings is personal. At the end of 2021, there were 2,235 employees. In addition to the cut in wages (up to -50% for pilots), fewer workers were hired than the 2,800 expected, noted Davide Gariglio (Pd) ”.
“We stopped hiring due to the reduction in traffic and therefore these people were not needed. Compared to the 2,800 employees, we have saved 17 million which would have been money lost by the taxpayers ”, Altavilla replied in the commission.
THE CIGS OF ALITALIA EMPLOYEES NOT HIRED BY ITA
In the meantime, "those not hired are in cigs in Alitalia, paid for by the state anyway", Maurizio Lupi (We with Italy) pointed out in the commission. "A well-paid cigs, because the Air Transport Solidarity Fund, at the INPS, supplements the modest cigs check that is due to all workers in other sectors (just over a thousand gross euros per month) with a sum that makes get the paycheck to 80% of the actual salary received up to 2019, before the Covid crisis which brought down the traffic and wages of air transport "underlined Gianni Dragoni in the Confindustria newspaper at the end of December.
THE REPLICA OF ALTAVILLA
"It's not my problem," Altavilla replied. “I am the president of Ita and I do not have the responsibility of the extraordinary administration. I don't care what happens to those people. Otherwise we become a Red Cross of the employees of the old Alitalia. And I'm not going to be ”.
THE QUESTION OF MANAGERS
Finally, "some deputies asked whether" sobriety in salaries will also be applied to management ". Altavilla replied that "the company must stay on the market and therefore offer market wages". Sergio Marchionne's former number two quoted the American saying "you pay peanuts you get monkeys", that is "if you pay peanuts you get monkeys": "I don't think we are paying peanuts for our pilots or that they are monkeys. I have no intention of hiring artichokes to pay little for them », Altavilla said shortly,” concludes Il Sole 24 Ore .
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/smartcity/perche-ita-picchia-sui-dipendenti-alitalia/ on Thu, 13 Jan 2022 14:38:24 +0000.