The Italian authorities has brokered a deal between Turkish residence home equipment maker Beko and commerce unions to scale back deliberate job cuts within the nation, Industry Minister Adolfo Urso mentioned Wednesday.
Beko, owned by Arçelik, mentioned in November it was planning to chop nearly 2,000 positions as a part of a turnaround drive at its Italian operations.
The firm has now agreed to greater than halve the variety of redundancies and to deal with them on a voluntary slightly than obligatory foundation, Urso mentioned within the decrease home of parliament.
“It is a positive and in many ways unexpected result,” the minister mentioned.
A spokesperson for Beko had no remark.
Beko confirmed a dedication made in January to speculate 300 million euros ($332 million) in Italy, up from an preliminary pledge of 110 million euros in November, and pulled again on plant closure plans, Urso mentioned.
In November, Beko mentioned it might shut two websites, one in Tuscany’s Siena and the opposite within the central Marche area. Urso mentioned no manufacturing facility would now shut, however Siena can be taken over by state-owned company Invitalia and used for different functions.
The Fim, Fiom, Uilm and Uglm unions mentioned in a joint assertion {that a} “preliminary” deal was agreed, which might be put to a staff’ vote, and, if authorized, finalized subsequent week.
Urso mentioned April 14 can be the date for the ultimate signature.
The unions didn’t touch upon the main points of the deal, which was reached in a single day on the business ministry in Rome after greater than 12 hours of negotiations between the corporate and staff’ representatives.
Beko took on the loss-making Italian operations as a part of its 2023 buy of Whirlpool’s European home home equipment business.
Source: www.dailysabah.com