Taranto, January 11 - ILVA steel company announced 3,519 temporary redundancies for its employees on solidarity contracts, to start March 3 and last 12 months, following a meeting with unions on Monday. The company said the decision was due to plant stoppages ordered by the Integrated Environmental Authorisation (AIA) as well as the market crisis. Unions had asked ILVA to allow employees on solidarity contracts to work an additional week per month in order to sustain income levels. However, the company claimed it does not have the resources to increase working hours. ILVA has been placed under special administration as the troubled firm goes through a massive environmental clean-up and financial turnaround project.