Agreement signed at Fiat on employment, outsourcing and temporary work
Published: 27 April 1999
In April 1999, Fiat Auto and Italian metalworkers' trade unions signed an agreement to transfer 2,081 workers to Comau Service, the (Fiat-owned) organisation which will be entrusted with the company's maintenance activities. The company also announced the recruitment of 350 young workers and the use of temporary workers in the company's plants.
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In April 1999, Fiat Auto and Italian metalworkers' trade unions signed an agreement to transfer 2,081 workers to Comau Service, the (Fiat-owned) organisation which will be entrusted with the company's maintenance activities. The company also announced the recruitment of 350 young workers and the use of temporary workers in the company's plants.
Metalworking trade union organisations and the management of Fiat Auto, the motor manufacturing group, have been involved for some time in negotiations on the reorganisation of the company (IT9710132N). The latest agreement, signed on 13 April 1999 by the company's management and the Fiom-Cgil, Fim-Cisl and Uilm-Uil unions, provides for 2,081 workers at the Mirafiori and Rivalta plants (Turin) no longer to be employees of Fiat Auto, but to be employed by Comau Service, a maintenance company entirely controlled by Fiat.
Alongside this "outsourcing" process, Fiat will hire 350 young workers in its bodywork operation: 200 at Mirafiori and 150 at the Melfi plant (Potenza). For this recruitment, Fiat will use work/training contract s with a duration of 24 months, plus 50 temporary agency workers at the Melfi plant. This is the first time that Fiat has used, in agreement with the trade unions, a significant number of temporary agency workers.
The trade unions underlined that this new recruitment meets the requests of the company's Rsu employee representative bodies, which have arisen owing to a shortage of personnel and the continuing recourse to overtime work of bodywork employees. The unions also stressed the importance of using work/training contracts rather than fixed-term contracts, as were used for 1,000 employees recruited in 1997. They also stated that the decision to recruit new workers, even if it concerns a relatively small number, contradicted the pessimistic scenario foreseen by the company for 1999 after the end of tax incentives for the scrapping (rottamazione) of old cars and the purchase of new ones
The hiring of the new workers was due to start in May 1999 and to be completed by July, the planned date of the launch of the new Punto model.
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