On Feb. 5, 2021, the signatory parties to the Metalmechanics Industry Collective Bargaining Agreement (Federmeccanica, Assistal and Fim-Cisl, Fiom-Cgil and Uilm-Uil) reached an agreement on contract renewal.
The new contract is effective February 05, 2021 with validity until June 30, 2024.
There are many new features, of fundamental importance is the new grading system for employees, which, effective June 01, 2021, will be structured as follows:
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General declarations are defined on the basis of 9 levels included in 4 fields
of professionalism, referring to the role actually played by the worker within the company organization.
It is clarified that for the purpose of classification in the legal categories of laborer and clerk, the prevalence of manual or operational activity in the performance of the role is taken into account, regardless of the classification level.
Effective June 1, 2021, Level 1 is eliminated.
Workers already in force as of May 31, 2021, and classified at that level, as of that date are reclassified to the new D1 level. Workers already in force as of May 31, 2021, affected by the aforementioned reclassification shall retain the seniority already accrued as of that date for all contractual purposes, as well as the periods of activity already performed in accordance with the provisions on professional mobility, shall be considered useful for the purposes of reclassification into the new levels of professionalism.
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The tabular increases absorb both individual increases recognized after January 1, 2017 (provided they were not granted with an express clause of nonabsorbability) and collective fixed increases established in the company after that date, with the exception of amounts connected by reason of the mode of performance (by way of example but not limited to: allowances and surcharges for overtime, night, holiday, or shift work).
Below are some of the additional changes in brief:
Supplementary Pension.: Probationary workers can also join the Cometa Fund; for workers newly joining after Feb. 05, 2021 and under 35 years of age, the company contribution from June 1, 2022 will be 2.2 percent of the contractual minimums;
Flexible benefits: The contractual welfare system is confirmed, the rules of which become structural: starting in June each year, companies will activate welfare tools for the benefit of workers for a maximum cost of 200.00 euros, to be used from June 1 until May 31 of the following year;
Agile Work: by the date of the drafting of the CCNL, the Parties, following the widespread use of agile work resulting from the containment measures of the Covid-19 Pandemic, in confirming the principle of equal treatment of workers in agile mode compared to those who perform work in presence, agree to entrust a Joint Commission with the definition of the regulatory framework, privacy protection, right to training, right to disconnection, and union rights;
Metasalute Supplementary Health Care.: provision is made for the extension of health care to retirees who have been continuously enrolled in the Fund for at least two years before retiring; for the Covid-19 emergency, the Metasalute Fund provides for the possibility of the disbursement of one-time payments and allowances following hospitalization/intensive care related to the flu syndrome of a pandemic nature.