«I GOT EVERYTHING. AT THE END ALSO THE PLACE ». Burago Molgara (Monza) - I LOST professionalism, money in my paycheck, and finally the job. Gianpaolo Verderio, former mayor of Burago Molgora, he was a scientific informant at Pfizer before being "outsourced" together with 180 colleagues, when the American pharmaceutical giant acquired another stars and stripes giant, Pharmacia where the young public administrator had been working for seven years. The sale of the company branch, followed by the "cleaning" of the employment contracts dates back to 2000, but the cut was made in the second step and the sector agency that took over the staff took care of it directly. «The ordeal began immediately – he says – from the position of 'product specialist', gained in Pharmacia, thanks to which I provided information on medicines to hospital staff, I moved on to being 'mezzemaniche'. During the daily visits to general practitioners I had to limit myself to handing in material».
SALARY of Verderio, and of the others in his position, "before" it was about 40 thousand euros a year, after the transfer to the pharmaceutical services agency (about which he prefers to remain anonymous because a lawsuit is still pending) , they cut his performance bonuses, 15 percent of the annual income added to the rest. «It was a traumatic experience – he adds – together with me, about twenty colleagues resisted, the other 160 accepted the incentive to leave: 33,000 euros which were offered to us at the end of 2003, a few days before Christmas. The sale of a business unit has thrown hundreds of families into the streets. There were those who had a mortgage, those who had children to support and more than one even lost their marriage. They were forced to accept." The former mayor did not give up and after refusing to leave voluntarily, he took the company to court which in the meantime fired him, according to him, unjustly. Last April, on appeal, the judge ordered his reinstatement. But six months after the pronouncement, Verderio is still unemployed. “Despite the sentence, not much has changed,” he underlines. Unnerved, embittered, the scientific informant says in no uncertain terms that he has lived through a real incub «It was, and it's terrible – he says – there are moments when it seems impossible to go on».
A HANDFUL kilometers from Burago, there is the AstraZeneca plant in Caponago. The company that started the "case" of outsourced whistleblowers. Following a global restructuring, in Italy the Anglo-Swedish multinational cut 330 jobs, 50 informants in Basiglio were sold to a specialized agency. But on the operation, the Province wants to see clearly: «I have several doubts about the decision to transfer personnel to Marvecs - he says Bruno Casati, councilor for industrial crises of Palazzo Isimbardi – The reasons given by AstraZeneca do not however justify this operation of leaving a nucleus of operators that is organic and functional with others ». There is also some fear in Brianza, where 500 people work. There is no shortage of negative signals, first of all the non-renewal of fixed-term contracts. The Caponaghese site is a center of excellence in the pharmaceutical field. Four years ago the company invested 12 million euros to expand it: the staff more than doubled. by BARBARA CALDEROLA The day of 30/10/2007 ed. NAZ
SALARY of Verderio, and of the others in his position, "before" it was about 40 thousand euros a year, after the transfer to the pharmaceutical services agency (about which he prefers to remain anonymous because a lawsuit is still pending) , they cut his performance bonuses, 15 percent of the annual income added to the rest. «It was a traumatic experience – he adds – together with me, about twenty colleagues resisted, the other 160 accepted the incentive to leave: 33,000 euros which were offered to us at the end of 2003, a few days before Christmas. The sale of a business unit has thrown hundreds of families into the streets. There were those who had a mortgage, those who had children to support and more than one even lost their marriage. They were forced to accept." The former mayor did not give up and after refusing to leave voluntarily, he took the company to court which in the meantime fired him, according to him, unjustly. Last April, on appeal, the judge ordered his reinstatement. But six months after the pronouncement, Verderio is still unemployed. “Despite the sentence, not much has changed,” he underlines. Unnerved, embittered, the scientific informant says in no uncertain terms that he has lived through a real incub «It was, and it's terrible – he says – there are moments when it seems impossible to go on».
A HANDFUL kilometers from Burago, there is the AstraZeneca plant in Caponago. The company that started the "case" of outsourced whistleblowers. Following a global restructuring, in Italy the Anglo-Swedish multinational cut 330 jobs, 50 informants in Basiglio were sold to a specialized agency. But on the operation, the Province wants to see clearly: «I have several doubts about the decision to transfer personnel to Marvecs - he says Bruno Casati, councilor for industrial crises of Palazzo Isimbardi – The reasons given by AstraZeneca do not however justify this operation of leaving a nucleus of operators that is organic and functional with others ». There is also some fear in Brianza, where 500 people work. There is no shortage of negative signals, first of all the non-renewal of fixed-term contracts. The Caponaghese site is a center of excellence in the pharmaceutical field. Four years ago the company invested 12 million euros to expand it: the staff more than doubled. by BARBARA CALDEROLA The day of 30/10/2007 ed. NAZ
