Swinger to make 70 staff redundant, loss of Versace orders proves decisive

There may be trouble ahead for Swinger International. The Bussolengo-based company in the Italian province of Verona, which has been producing jeans (and, for some time now, ready-to-wear) for many major fashion houses since the early 1970s, is about to make almost half of its employees redundant.

It will be a particularly bitter Christmas for the employees of the Veneto-based company which, only two weeks after signing an agreement on extraordinary furlough for eight months covering its entire workforce, on November 25 opened collective redundancy proceedings for 70 of its current 148 employees, as reported in the Economy section of the local daily L' Arena .

Swinger International's situation has deteriorated in just a few months following, according to union sources, the loss of orde