It was filed on January 19 by Mercatone Uno, an Italian distribution company present throughout the country, leader in the distribution of furniture, furnishing accessories and home products at the Court of Bologna, reservation request for admission to the preventive composition procedure.
As is known, art. 161, c. 6, LF provides that the entrepreneur can file the petition containing the request for composition together with the balance sheets relating to the last three financial years, reserving the right to present the plan containing the analytical description of the methods and times for fulfilling the proposal, as well as the list of names of the creditors with the indication of their respective credits within a term set by the judge, between sixty and one hundred and twenty days and extendable, in the presence of justified reasons, by no more than sixty days.
From what we have learned, the reservation request and the composition plan have been entrusted to the accountant from Bologna Alessandro Servadei, who for some months has also held the position of president of the board of directors; the lawyer Diego Rufini would instead be the legal advisor.
Unproven rumors suggest that negotiations are underway with potential investors to discuss the new industrial plan developed by Alix Partners.
A new phase now begins for the 3,700 employees working at the 79 Mercatone Uno stores.
As the Secretary Fisascat Ferrara Luca Benfenati recalls, in the face of this latest serious news, we have not had any information about the repercussions that the request for preventive settlement may have on the employees of Mercatone Business and we have no information on the industrial plan that will necessarily have to be presented to the Court of Bologna. However, the immediate repercussions on workers must be addressed, for example the payment of the Cigs for the workers of the Tre Stelle stores and the payment of solidarity for all the other workers of Mercatone Uno.
This is why we believe it is necessary to open a table with both the company and the highest institutions, to whom we will ask to guarantee the protection of workers.
The highest corporate management, the institutions, the commissioners appointed by the court, cannot ignore the workers' right to be represented and protected.
