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Administrative Services Office Administrative, Office Support And Other Business Support Activities Activities Of Call Centres 82.2 - Activities of call centres
101 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
17 June 2019
Employment effect (start)
20 October 2019
Foreseen end date
Description
Due to the negative results of the meeting for the end of the procedure for collective dismissal, the call centre company Monalisa Contact will proceed with the dismissal of the 101 employees of its Catania seat.
The company, which operates as a call-centre contractor for Vodafone business, will close down its operations in Catania since the balance sheet is in red.
During negotiations with the trade union, the company proposed to transform the 101 open-ended contracts of its employees in coordinated collaborations (i.e. parasubordinate self-employment contracts). The trade unions opposed the proposal.
Eurofound (2019), Monalisa Contact, Closure in Italy, factsheet number 97964, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/97964.
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