• ArcelorMittal: 2,900 redundancies in the new plan, 4,700 in 2023. Suspended table
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  • ArcelorMittal, hearing postponed to December 20. Found basis for negotiation

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05 December 2019A negotiation on the bases presented yesterday in the plan of Arcelor Mittal, which provides for 4,700 redundancies, cannot even begin, because the cornerstone of the contract is the employment aspect and the group a year ago undertook to guarantee, regardless of the situation of the market, 10 thousand jobs up to 2023 with a penalty of 150 thousand euros for every worker placed at the door under that figure. It is the position, we learn from qualified sources, of the former Ilva in the case underway in Milan.

In the hearing of November 27, a fixed point was set, before the judge Claudio Marangoni, in the civil case between Arcelor Mittal and the former Ilva. The Franco-Indian group, through its to Lucia Morselli, had guaranteed "the normal operation of the plants and the continuity of production", a fundamental commitment to reach an agreement on the contract of rental and acquisition of the establishments that the multinational had asked to dissolve with a act that, instead, the commissioners of the former Ilva consider "illegitimate". And for this they filed an urgent precautionary appeal. The judge postponed the proceedings until December 20th to allow the "negotiation" to "take place on the basis of agreements and commitments".

With the presentation of yesterday's new plan by Mittal , however, the picture has changed, because for the commissioners of the former Ilva the statements of the group on the redundancies are considered absolutely unacceptable, without justifications and unacceptable. About a year ago, in fact, Arcelor Mittal, winning the tender and signing the contract, undertook to guarantee, regardless of the market situation, 10 thousand jobs and to pay, otherwise, a penalty of 150 thousand euros for each worker left at home. In essence, for the former Ilva in extraordinary administration it is possible to deal with the revision of the agreements made, but certainly not on the benchmark of the contract which is the employment aspect.

At this point, also on the front of the cause the decisions that the Government will take with respect to the new plan of the group are expected. Mittal, represented, among others, by the lawyers Romano Vaccarella and Ferdinando Emanuele, will have until December 16th to file, in the event of a sinking of the agreements, his own memory in the proceeding on the interim appeal of the commissioners, assisted among others by the lawyers Giorgio De Nova and Enrico Castellani. If you go ahead in the negotiation, however, the parties by mutual agreement could also ask the judge to postpone the hearing until at least January.

Conte: "We reject the project"
As for the former Ilva, " the project that was anticipated in a meeting is absolutely not good, I think it is very similar to the original one. We reject it and we will work as during this negotiation to the goals we have set for ourselves with Mr. Mittal and that Mr. Mittal has personally committed himself to me to reach, and we will succeed ". Thus the President of the Council Giuseppe Conte on the sidelines of an initiative in Rome.

Emiliano: "It's not possible to get free from a signed contract"
"I would suggest to Arcelor Mittal to remember that he has a signed contract and that from a signed contract, which has become no longer acceptable to those who have made this commitment, it is not possible to go free or claim sacrifice from others. It is exactly the opposite: it is Mittal that if it is no longer there, it must obviously compensate the State, Taranto and Puglia for the damage it has done wrong, at least from its point of view, to sign that contract ". The president of the Puglia Region, Michele Emiliano, said this, commenting on the outcome of yesterday's table at the Mise between Government and company on the future of the Taranto plant. "I believe, however, that I can say without fear of contradicting the Government's position that the fact that Arcelor Mittal maintains some positions with reference to the redundancies demonstrates a lack of will to find an agreement".