Tim: generational change and new professional figures, agreement on 1,300 voluntary departures

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08 March 2021 An agreement was signed between the company and the unions for 1,300 voluntary exits in 2021. The agreement aims at generational and professional turnover and allows the company to hire by lowering the average age and introducing specific professional figures, useful for innovation and digitization.

Tim's staff at 31 December 2020 amounted to 52,347 units, of which 42,680 in Italy (55,198 units as of 31 December 2019, of which 45,266 in Italy) with a reduction of 2,851 units compared to 31 December 2019, of which -2,586 units in Italy.

In August, an agreement was reached with the trade unions for the reduction of costs with a view to Smart working, with an experimentation throughout 2021 of a reorganization of work with 2 days a week of Smart working and an individual package of another 12 days to allow workers to work two days in the office and three days from home.

Also in this case the starting point was the voluntariness with the company savings to be redistributed also among the workers.

Unions satisfied with the agreement just signed with Tim on 1,300 exits pursuant to the Fornero law plus about 170 other voluntary mobility exits linked to a previously activated procedure.

"The agreement - comments Riccardo Saccone, national secretary of the SLC CGIL - is part of the more general process of reviewing the generational mix. Now we await the official presentation of the business plan. It remains understood that for us the re-industrialization of Tim and the the success of the process of overcoming the digital divide passes through the creation of the memorandum signed between the company and the CDP "on the single network.

"In continuity with the previous agreements - says Giorgio Serao of the national secretariat Fistel Cisl - we have signed the release of 1,300 workers in isopension, and extended voluntary mobility for another 170 workers. The agreement goes in the direction of changing the generational mix. ; now we are waiting for Tim's industrial plan to verify the continuity of infrastructural investments, fundamental for digital transformation. Investments on which we are particularly attentive because they represent the real guarantee for maintaining Tim's employment perimeter ".

"The signed agreement - concludes Luciano Savant Levra, national secretary of Uilcom Uil - is important because it is part of the path of voluntary exits of workers with greater seniority, a non-traumatic path that allows to lighten the staff of the former monopolist. Now we await the official presentation of the industrial plan after the shareholders' meeting at the end of March; then we could make further reflections on how we will continue the discussion for the current year.