Gkn: Fiom appeal upheld, dismissal letter revoked

The Court of Florence has expressed itself in favor of the appeal presented by Fiom-Cgil against the dismissals of the Gkn of Campi Bisenzio, revoking the letter of opening the collective dismissal procedure.

This is what we learn from trade union sources.

The labor judge, to which Fiom had addressed on 30 July last, filing an appeal for anti-union behavior pursuant to article 28 of the Workers' Statute, sentenced Gkn Driveline Firenze to "revoke the opening letter of the procedure pursuant to L . 223/91 ", and" to put in place the consultation and comparison procedures provided for by art. 9 part one of the Italian National Collective Agreement and by the company agreement of 9 July 2020 ". According to the court ruling, "the ascertained anti-union behavior consisted, in its most significant part and detrimental to the interests of the applicant union, in having prevented the union itself from speaking, as would have been its right, in the delicate phase of formation of the decision to proceed with the total termination of thebusiness activity. The removal of the effects of this behavior can only imply the obligation for the company to correctly renew the omitted information and, as a further and necessary consequence, the obligation to revoke the procedure pursuant to Law no. 223/91 started on the basis of a decision taken in the absence of the necessary, even if not binding, confrontation with the trade union ".