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Manufacturing (31) Manufacture of furniture 31.0 - Manufacture of furniture 31.00 - Manufacture of furniture
479 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
22 December 2025
Employment effect (start)
1 January 2026
Foreseen end date
31 December 2028
Description
Natuzzi announced 479 redundancies and closure of two Puglia facilities (Graviscella in Altamura and Jesce 2 in Santeramo) in its 2026-2028 industrial plan presented at the Ministry of Enterprise and Made in Italy.
Trade unions FenealUIL, Filca-CISL, Fillea-CGIL, Filcams CGIL, Fisascat CISL, and Uiltucs declared the plan unacceptable after 24 years of social safety nets and substantial public funding deployment. The UIL Secretary described the proposal as lacking future investment measures and stressed the need to protect skilled employment and Italian facilities to achieve a credible 2028 strategy. Unions argued that investment levels and employment safeguards were insufficient, noting the removal of previously planned internalisation of Romanian production. They requested firm commitments, including a substantial revision of the industrial plan, a halt to unilateral actions, voluntary exit incentives for staff nearing retirement, and the creation of a permanent steering committee.
Worker organisations called on companies and institutions to ensure employees do not bear the consequences of past corporate decisions, citing eight previous industrial plans.
The Puglia Region suggested reactivating a regional discussion table, a proposal supported by unions. Unions also prohibited machinery relocations, activity transfers, or irreversible decisions before the next ministerial meeting, while expressing openness to reviewing the plans to ensure they are sustainable for workers and the region, otherwise reserving the right to take further action.
Eurofound (2025), Natuzzi, Internal restructuring in Italy, factsheet number 203885, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://apps.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/203885.
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