Easy Work closes: 264 jobs at risk in Chiasso

Context

TL;DR

• Easy Work will close by December 31
• 264 jobs at risk
• Seven administrative employees and 257 temporary workers involved
• Consultation launched with OCST

Key facts

• Decision → cessation of all corporate activity
• Headquarters → Corso San Gottardo 106, Chiasso
• Staff → 7 administrative employees and 257 temporary workers
• Total involved → 264 workers
• Communications → by the end of October
• Procedure → collective dismissal
• Union → OCST
• Reason given → shareholders' decision, not economic difficulties

The news of 14 October 2026 brings the closure of Easy Work, a temporary employment agency with headquarters in Corso San Gottardo 106, to Chiasso. By 31 December the company will definitively lower the shutter and stop all activities, following a decision taken by its shareholders.

The choice concerns the entire workforce. There are seven administrative employees and 257 temporary workers: 264 people who, according to what was communicated, are destined to lose their jobs. All contracts will be cancelled. Communications relating to cancellations will be delivered by the end of October.

For the border reader, Chiasso is the geographical point of the story; the source, however, does not indicate how many of the workers involved reside in Italy or cross the border daily. The data available concerns Easy Work's workforce and includes both categories indicated.

The dismissal procedure

The company has informed the staff of the start of a collective dismissal procedure. Before the layoffs become effective, the consultation phase has begun: workers can propose different measures to avoid terminations, reduce their number or limit their consequences.

The trade union discussion has already started with the OCST. Regional deputy secretary Nenad Jovanovic confirmed a meeting with Easy Work managers to review the perspectives of those involved. Above all, on the table are opportunities for professional reintegration and the possibility of introducing a social plan for those who, at the end of the relationship, have not yet found another job.

Eduardo D'Angelo, sole director, explains the origin of the decision. The termination, he clarified, was decided by the shareholders and does not derive from economic difficulties: "It is not a failure." D'Angelo said he was confident in the possibilities of relocating the 264 workers and assured the company's commitment to managing the closure in their interest.

Operational details

Practical guidance for those who work across the border

The closure does not authorize turning the 264 jobs at risk into a figure for the number of cross-border workers. The source indicates a site in Chiasso and a workforce made up of administrative employees and temporary workers, but does not specify the workers' place of residence, whether they hold a G permit, or the share who live in Italy. For this reason, the cross-border worker must distinguish what has already been communicated from what still needs to be verified in their individual case.

The text contains no information on AVS, LPP, LAMal, withholding tax, double taxation, tax revenue transfers, or INPS. Nor does it describe tax, social security, or insurance consequences for those who work in Canton Ticino. These are issues that may be relevant to a cross-border worker's personal situation, but they are not connected to Easy Work's decision in the available source. Adding them as automatic effects of the closure would go beyond the published data.

The operational time frames indicated by the source

| Step | What it lets you track | | Communications by the end of October | Contract terminations | | Consultation | Proposals to avoid, reduce, or mitigate the terminations | | Discussions with OCST | Prospects for affected workers | | Reemployment and social plan | Possible solutions for those who do not yet have another job |

The distinction between the seven administrative employees and the 257 temporary workers is the only numerical breakdown provided. The source does not establish a different schedule for the two groups and does not indicate separate conditions for those who live across the border. Since it does not report the content of the individual communications, it is not possible to describe any further conditions for an individual employment relationship beyond the termination of the contracts.

Reemployment is the operational outcome explicitly indicated in addition to the closure. Those who wish to supplement the union discussions with an independent search can consult annunci di lavoro, without attributing specific offers or hires to the source.

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Key points

Steps to follow

The procedure described makes it possible to construct a concrete sequence without adding deadlines or documents that the source does not mention. The first time reference is the end of October: by then, the notices concerning the terminations will be delivered. The second is December 31, the deadline indicated for the definitive cessation of activities.

Five steps in the procedure

1. Read the notice concerning the termination when it is delivered by the end of October. 2. Take part in the consultation phase scheduled before the dismissals become effective. 3. Submit any alternative proposals to avoid the terminations, reduce their number or limit their consequences. 4. Follow the discussion that Easy Work has opened with OCST and the meeting planned with the company's representatives. 5. In the discussion, check the opportunities for professional reintegration and the possibility of a social plan.

For a cross-border worker, this sequence helps keep the facts from the source separate from personal questions. The text does not list documents to submit, offices to contact or arrangements for AVS, LPP, LAMal and withholding tax; it is therefore not possible to derive a complete tax or social-security procedure from this news item. The same applies to any effects on a G permit, tax revenue sharing, INPS or double taxation: the source does not address them.

If another job has not been found by the end of the employment relationship, the social plan is presented as a possibility to discuss, not as a measure already announced. To get oriented on the specific topic, page disoccupazione per frontalieri is available. For the search for a new position, the reference to annunci di lavoro remains consistent.

Before closing the process, the personal financial data should be reconstructed based on one's own salary and not on the total of 264 workers. To do so, use calcolatore dello stipendio.

Source: tio.ch