(Finance) – Approx 2,500 Ex Ilva employees at the Taranto plant they will be able to count on the extraordinary redundancy fund until 31 December 2023. With a law decree approved by the Council of Ministers on Thursday 15 June the government thus went to the rescue of what is now called Acciaierie d’Italia. The decree, following the approval of the law on company crises, provides for an additional forty weeks of social shock absorber to be used by the end of the year in favor of companies of national strategic interest with over 1,000 employees who have not managed to complete the the programs envisaged for complex reorganization plans implemented through particular corporate restructuring interventions and huge investments.
“Given the impossibility of reaching an agreement between the company and the unions for the extension of ordinary instruments, the Government wanted to protect workers and their families with an extraordinary instrument at a time when it is important that the State is close to a territory affected by a complex transition”, comments the Minister of Labor and Social Policies, Marina Calderone.
“So,” said the Minister of Public Administration, Paolo Zangrillo – we can manage the situation without creating employment problems”.
An intervention welcomed by the Fim Cisl which, however, continues to underline the need for an agreement between Acciaierie d’Italia and the unions
In the meantime, among the projects that risk being removed from the Pnrr, as part of the review, there is a one-billion investment for the decarbonisation of the former Ilva. The project on the iron pre-reducer production plant, entrusted to the public company Dri, risks not being able to be completed by June 2026, and its financing would be moved to the development and cohesion fund, according to sources in the ministry of ‘Environment and energy security which confirm what was reported by the Sole 24 Ore. The one billion resources thus freed within the Pnrr would be used on other projects.