Banks Union Says It Plans Action to Reintegrate Fired Itau Staff

(Bloomberg) – A union representing the workers at Sao Paulo Banks said that Itau Unibanco Holding, who was dismissed for low productivity while working remotely, will take a collective action aimed at reintegrating SA employees.

President Neiva Ribeiro said at a press conference on Thursday that the union’s action would be valid for SAO Paulo employees, 99% of the layoffs. Union – Sindicato Dos Bancários e Finaniários de São Paulo estimated that Oasco E Região – Itau rejected about 1,000 workers, but the bank did not explain a number to the public.

Itau rejected employees after reviewing behaviors related to remote working and working hours records. He identified the patterns that are incompatible with our principles of trust that cannot be bargained for the bank ”.

The ITau representative refused to comment and referred to a separate statement he published on Wednesday. In this regard, ITau said in the most critical situations that the dismissed workers have 20% of the home working activities in some days and still spend extra hours. This said it was compared to the average 75% for the entire bank. According to ITau, the monitoring of digital activity is stated in the domestic policy documents signed by workers.

On Thursday, he said, “The bank created a metric and we don’t know what it is now,” he said. Itau, the union did not give in advance about the dismissal of the union, Ribeiro said, and neither the union nor the workers dismissed, he said.

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