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Jailbirds in northe Italy will soon be able to offer judges a sweetener -- though serving up an extra smooth cappuccino is unlikely to be enough to get time off their sentences. The coffee shop in the courthouse of Turin is seeking baristas with an unusual professional background: prisoners or former prisoners looking for a way to pay their debt to society or start afresh. The city , ...ادامه مطلب

Online clothes retailer Zalando is looking to build on its presence in Italy with a new warehouse to serve the region. Zalando, which specializes in selling clothes, announced it will build a new logistics warehouse somewhere in northe Italy in 2018 that could create up to 1,000 new jobs in the coming years. Italy has a become key scale-up market for the Berlin-bo start up which is now worth over €10 billion and employs more than 13,000 people worldwide, according to company spokesman Matteo Bovio. "We started operation in a satellite warehouse in Italy last year (located in Stradella, Pav, ...ادامه مطلب

Chief executive of Italian bank Monte Paschi di Siena (BMPS) Marco Morelli. Photo: Giuseppe Cacace/AFPItaly's troubled bank Monte dei Paschi di Siena (BMPS) said on Wednesday that it would close nearly a third of its branches and axe around a fifth of its workforce just a day after the EU approved a, ...ادامه مطلب

Hard on the heels of stoking anger over plans to open a restaurant in the Vatican, McDonald's has filed a $20-million lawsuit against Florence for blocking a proposed outlet in the city's most revered square. The US fast-food chain told AFP Monday it was claiming 17.8 million euros ($19.65 million) in damages after the city rejected an application to open an outlet in the historic Piazza del Duomo, one of the most visited places in Europe.McDonald's said the suit was being filed with the administrative court, which arbitrates in goveance disputes in Italy. The firm gave no other details.Florence's centre-left mayor, Dario Nardella, tued down McDonald's application in June, in a decision that was confirmed the following month by a technical panel in charge of preserving the city's ancient heart."McDonald's has the right to submit an application, because this is permitted under the law, but we also have the right to say no," Nardella told the city council, saying he wanted to support,mcdonalds,mcdonald's menu,mcdonalds breakfast menu,mcdonalds jobs,mcdonalds prices,mcdonalds careers,mcdonalds stock,mcdonalds salads,mcdonalds breakfast hours,mcdonalds calories ...ادامه مطلب

One lucky person will get to direct Miramare Castle in Trieste. Photo: Alessandro CaproniSome 390 people have applied to head up nine of Italy’s museums and archaeological sites as part of a plan to revive Italy’s lesser-known cultural treasures. The cultural ministry launched the inteational search in May for directors to lead sites including Rome’s National Etruscan Museum and Trieste’s Historical Museum of the Castle of Miramare. Out of the 309 who have applied, 26 are foreign or have dual citizenship, the ministry said on Monday, while 201 are women and 189 are men. A team of experts will now make a preliminary shortlist of no more than 10 candidates per job, with a final decision on the appointments being made at the end of the year.,hundreds apply for one job ...ادامه مطلب

BPM is merging with Banco Popolare. Photo: Giuseppe Cacace/AFPBanco Popolare and Banca Popolare di Milano said on Monday they would shed seven percent of their 25,000 staff as they merge to create Italy's third-largest bank by assets. The 1,800 jobs are to be cut via voluntary departures, and 800 other employees will be reassigned to other jobs. The number of branches will be cut by 14 percent to 2,082 by 2019 as the new bank aims to boost net profit from €600 million last year to €1.1 billion in 2019. But if the effort to improve online banking exceeds expectations, "that could lead us to reduce the network to have 1,700-1,800 branches," said BPM chief executive Giuseppe Castagna. That would represent a reduction of up to 30 percent from today. Castagna said the new bank "intends to be a leading bank" and that the restructuring plans were "solid and ambitious". The merger of the two banks, announced in March, was a major development in the consolidation in Italy's fragmented banking sector that has been saddled with some €200 billion worth of non-performing loans. The deal had been delayed as the banks struggled to meet higher capital requirements, weighed down by hundreds of billions of euros of bad loans and weak economic growth. Only in April did Italy's banking sector agree on a €5 billion fund on Monday to take on bad loans and guarantee that weakened banks can be recapitalized. Shares in Banco Popolare topped Milan's leader board with a 6.5-percent gain in late afteoon trading. BPM was up 1.4 percent, while the FTSE Mib index gained 0.26 percent overall. Let's block ads! بخوانید, ...ادامه مطلب

Some 76,000 jobs were unfilled in last year. Photo: Kailash Gyawali/FlickrItaly's technology sector is struggling to fill thousands of jobs, despite the county's high unemployment, due to a shortage of talent. Some 76,000 of professional-level jobs offered by companies in the industrial and services areas went unfilled last year, according to data from Italy's Ministry of Work and Chamber of Commerce. According to the data, 41.8 percent of all jobs offered to Italian software developers and analysts were unfilled, or only filled temporarily. The same was true of 30 percent of jobs offered for engineering professionals. This is despite a national unemployment rate of 11.7 percent and a youth unemployment rate of 37.9 percent. "Generally, Italy is managing to easily find workers for most of its jobs," a spokesperson from the Chamber of Commerce told The Local. "However, there are a couple of areas where the number of unfilled jobs is very high."  Other sectors struggle to find professionals too, but Italy's technology and engineering sectors are particularly hard hit, especially as thousands of the country's brightest move abroad each year for work. According to data from national statistics agency, Istat, seven percent of all Phd holders who graduated between 2004 and 2006 currently live abroad, while 14 percent of Phd students who graduated between 2008 and 2010 are now living and working elsewhere. "Obviously, among those who leave Italy for work there are many highly-skilled and well-educated workers," the spokesperson added. Story continues below… Another problem is the lack of work experience among Italian jobseekers. Companies are looking to hire, but can't find workers who fit the bill. "We need our schools and universities to offer more work placements to students, giving them the opportunity to develop the real-world skills that will make them more valuable to employers," the spokesperson said. Let's block ads! بخوانید, ...ادامه مطلب