Alitalia, the crisis weighs more and more: new layoffs for a year

ROMA – New layoffs for Alitalia. The extraordinary commissioner Giuseppe Leogrande, as expected and announced during the meeting with the unions last week, asked for confirmation of the cigs for two more units compared to the 6,826 employees currently admitted to the cash register. The new tranche will last until the end of October next year with the support of 6,622 workers from Alitalia Sai and 206 from Cityliner.

In detail, the cigs required for the first business unit involves 3,339 flight personnel (458 captains, 566 pilots, 2,315 cabin crew employees) and 3,283 ground employees. For Cityliner, on the other hand, Alitalia asks for the shock absorber for a total of 206 units, of which 204 sailors (41 captains, 58 pilots and 105 flight attendants) and 2 ground crew employees. The collapse of global traffic is putting the company in serious trouble, like all the world’s airlines. Alitalia in the coming days should have a clearer idea of ​​its future and of the state newco that will bring, if all goes well, 3 billion euros for the restart.

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“Also due to the protraction of the Covid-19 emergency, the company still finds itself in the need to continue the cigs path connected to the commissioner management, with the extended modalities recently shared with the social partners, persisting, in addition to the physiological problems that led to the management of the commissioner, conditions of exceptional and unpredictable difficulties related to the business “is written in the communication sent by Alitalia to the trade unions communicating the request for new cigs for 6,828 employees until 23 September 2021, still using a aimed at the use of the social shock absorber which, on closer inspection, is equivalent to the reduction envisaged in the industrial plan under the study of the advisors which aims at a very lean company (from 35 to 70 aircraft) with about 5,000 employees overall, against the current 11,300.
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