Work and social safety nets, today a focus on resources

The government is tightening the pace on the reform of social safety nets. Today the Minister of Labor Andrea Orlando will take stock with that of the Economy Daniele Franco on the document developed in these months of confrontation. Minister Orlando met yesterday with the general secretaries of CGIL, CISL and UIL. The goal, as stated in a note from the department of via Veneto, is to share with Landini, Sbarra and Bombardieri “the progress of the work” to begin to untie the knot of knots, that of resources on which weight, perimeter and sustainability will depend of the reform. A theme, that of the financing of the reform over which the trade unions supervise for which, as reiterated by the Uil leader, Pierpaolo Bombardieri, there are no reforms, much less social safety nets, ‘at no cost’. A “clear” message that the secretary general expressly sends to Franco “more than to Minister Orlando”. “We ask that the social safety nets are guaranteed to all female workers and to all workers and therefore investments are needed”, she reiterates. At the moment, in the meantime, the only ‘official’ figure available to the ad hoc fund for the new social protection instruments is that linked to the suspension of cashback, for a total of 1.5 billion euros. Returning to the provision, the reform, as repeatedly stressed by Orlando, intends “to ensure” universal “protection for all workers, employees and self-employed, in every sector and regardless of the size of the company” but “differentiated by sector and entity, keeping I also take into account the dynamics of the various production sectors “. But the real ‘turning point’ would come if it were possible to extend social protection also to workers of micro – enterprises, those under 5 employees now completely uncovered, without cig or FIS or bilateral funds. For this reason, we tried to work on the technical tables to widen the audience and to transform the bilateral funds in a solidarity sense, also providing a superfund to support any crisis situations. Among the objectives is also that of extending the extraordinary redundancy fund to companies up to 15 employees. The idea remains to overcome the cig in derogation. On the other hand, the ordinary cig has been confirmed by drawing up new salary ceilings: from the current gross 998 euros envisaged for monthly wages up to 2,159.48 euros to at least 1999 euros. The causal cig should remain: corporate crisis, reorganization, cessation of activities, local and sectoral crises. The framework should be implemented by active policy instruments, starting with the relocation allowance which should be reabsorbed in the Gol. Retouching in sight also for the Dis.Coll and Naspi; the first would extend coverage times and a new salary decalage would be drawn up for both, which could start from the sixth month onwards.