"Fiat reaches deal with unions on measures for production restart in Italy", 9 April 2020

Fiat Chrysler reached a deal with unions on Thursday over measures to adopt in its Italian plants once the government eases restrictions on business activity put in place to contain the coronavirus outbreak...

The agreed measures include sanitising premises, taking workers’ temperatures, providing safety devices such as face masks and hand gel, rearranging assembly layouts, marking floors to ensure one-metre between workers and staggering shifts...

“The health and security of workers are the main priorities for FCA... The functioning of our industrial system is fundamental for our group, but we do not admit any derogation to people’s security,” FCA said in a statement...

The unions also agreed to adopt a rotating furlough system to reduce the financial impact on workers’ pay, FIM said.

A third union, FIOM, said that the agreement would be valid until the end of July and that each factory would need to find “the best solution to protect workers”...