Telecom Italia Unions Seek to Block Call-Center Unit Split
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Telecom Italia SpA, the biggest Italian phone company, started final negotiations yesterday with unions about a plan to cut 2,750 jobs, or more than 5 percent of its domestic workforce, by 2014.
Telecom Italia is planning so-called solidarity contracts, revising the conditions of 30,000 employees. That’s the entire Italian workforce excluding Open Access, a division established in 2008 to guarantee Telecom Italia’s competitors equal access to its fixed networks. Unions oppose the creation of a new company containing all 12,000 call-center employees.