Sending disciplinary complaints to those who have not worked because they have joined a strike called against overtime is an illegitimate and anti-union conduct.
For this reason, the Bologna Labor judge upheld an appeal by Filcams-Cgil against the Betty Blue company of the designer Elisabetta Franchi , which in recent days has already ended up at the center of the controversy for having declared that it hires only "anta" women because "they have already had children "and are available to work" 24 hours a day ".
The judge's decision concerns letters sent to workers on 23 and 25 November 2021 and 8 April 2022.
For the judge, the device reads, "the repeated raising of disciplinary disputes against a group of workers who had already expressed their willingness to join the state of agitation promoted by the applicant union" constitutes "in itself intimidating behavior and evidently aimed at discouraging employees from joining the overtime strike , legitimately proclaimed ".
The conduct of the company, we read again, "proves a systematic use of the disciplinary instrument for intimidating purposes, with lasting effects over time". The judge then orders the company to cease this conduct, "not to follow up on disputes and to refrain for the future from using disciplinary power to limit the exercise of trade union freedom ".
(Unioneonline / L)
