financial statements at 31 december - Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane

INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
As already reported above, on 20 July 2012 Agens, with the help of Federtrasporto and the Filt-Cgil, Fit-Cisl, Uiltrasporti,
Ugl Trasporti and Fast Ferrovie trade union organisations, signed the national collective labour agreement (CCNL,
Contratto Collettivo Nazionale di Lavoro) for workers in the Mobility sector/Railway Activities contract area; on 30 October
2012 the agreement was also signed by Or.S.A. Ferrovie. Also on 20 July 2012, at the same time as the national collective
labour agreement, the FS Group and the trade union organisations also signed the FS Group Company Agreement, which
was also subsequently signed by Or.S.A. Ferrovie on 30 October 2012.
The two previous agreements had expired on 31 December 2008.
The new CCNL agreement, which will expire on 31 December 2014, is the first nationwide labour agreement that
contributes to the gradual construction of the CCNL agreement on Mobility for the new unified rail transport and local
public transport sector, in accordance with the recommendations of the Memorandum on the CCNL agreement on Mobility
signed in the presence of the Minister for Infrastructures and Transport on 14 May 2009, and the subsequent
Understanding signed on 30 September 2010, again at the above Ministry.
For the FS Italiane Group companies that apply the two agreements (FS, RFI, Trenitalia, Italferr, Ferservizi, FS Sistemi
Urbani and Italcertifer), the new regulations came into force on 1 September 2012.
The arrangements that were agreed, compared with the preceding system, allow greater flexibility in industrial relations,
working hours, rules on the utilisation of personnel and pay, thus resulting in a substantial increase in productivity. As
regards working hours in particular, the changes from the previous arrangements are:
- all employees work 38 hours a week instead of 36, shunting personnel 38 hours instead of 34;
- relaxation of the restrictions on working hours per day and on the arrangements for mobile personnel, which vary
according to the lines of business (high-speed, medium- and long-distance, regional transport, cargo transport);
- the possibility of negotiating further flexibility in working hours to meet specific production requirements at production
unit level.
As regards pay, the financial terms regarded both cover for the previous period, 2009 to 2011, and increases to cover the
three-year period 2012-2014 in accordance with the provisions of the Joint Trade union agreement of 15 April 2009
regarding the implementation of the master agreement on the reform of contract structures of 22 January 2009.
Starting from 1 January 2013, the Group’s Company Agreement also introduced, for the first time, supplementary medical
assistance schemes for all employees.
Within the context of the European social dialogue, at CER level the FS Italiane Group applied the procedure for the
preparation of the 4 th Railway Package, specifically with reference to the review of Regulation 1370/2007 on local public
transport. At the same time, the Group continued to participate in the restricted working group named “Social aspects
and the protection of staff in case of change of railway operator” for checking the status of implementation of Regulation
no. 1370/2007.
Personnel management and development policies
As in previous years, measures continued to be adopted to increase efficiency and productivity. A contribution to this was
the signature of the new Collective Labour Agreement, the favourable effects of which were seen in the last four months
of the year.
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