"Italian court finds auto part company guilty of breaching trade union rights", 21 Sep 2021

The Florence Labour Court found driveline component manufacturer Gkn Driveline, owned by British fund Melrose, to be in ‘clear violation of trade union rights’ for having fired 422 employees via email in early July.

The court also found that Gkn Driveline had disregarded the usual procedures that allow workers to access social safety nets after being fired.

This case is just one of many mass layoffs announced this summer in Italy after the government...allowed companies to fire their workers again. Individual and collective layoffs – with few exceptions – had been banned by the government since March 2020 as a response to the first wave of the pandemic.

… [T]here are around one hundred similar cases of mass layoffs waiting for a governmental response.