Pa, trade unions: “wages are too low, that’s wrong and the most competent flee”

The public administration is not attractive, salaries are too low, moreover super taxed and, even if a generational change and greater skills would be necessary, fine professionals, even young people, such as lawyers, engineers, architects, IT technicians, they think twice Sometimes before being enrolled in the ministries or other bodies, they even desert the competitions or after having won them they give up the famous permanent position, once synonymous with security. The state leaders of Unadis and Confsal Unsa, the National Union of Autonomous Unions, reported this to Adnkronos, confirming the news on the ‘flight’ from the PA by winners of competitions and not only, as was also highlighted days ago by the Minister of Infrastructures and sustainable mobility Enrico Giovannini. “Unadis has always maintained that salaries in the Public Administration are low compared to the responsibilities that one assumes and unfair with respect to the private sector. It is not acceptable for a qualified graduate, who enters by competition, to take 1,400 euros a month” reports Barbara Casagrande, general secretary Unadis (National Union of State Managers). “It is necessary to increase the minimum wages, eliminate the wages jungle, for which some administrations are more attractive than others for the same work and – adds Casagrande – eliminate the salary ceiling of the management, which compresses all wages down”. The executives of Unadis have been asking for some time to “include other institutions in the Collective Agreements, supplementary to the salary, such as insurance, first accommodation allowance, service accommodation, equipment available as a mobile phone and portable PC”. The phenomenon is even more evident in the fixed-term hiring, for the implementation of the NRP. Emblematic is the case of the Pnrr Giustizia which, after having enlisted many professionals with degrees and masters, then leave. “At the Trial Office, for example, thousands enter and leave within a few months – reports Massimo Battaglia – also because they do not make them do the job for which they were hired … maybe they were enlisted to help the magistrates to make the sentences and many of them, on the other hand, were sent to make photocopies in the chancelleries “. Furthermore, adds Battaglia, “many young people leave because they make them go from one part of Italy to another and with salaries of 1,700 euros a month you cannot support yourself in another city, pay rent, in addition to the fact that you cannot they can enjoy the concessions that exist in the private sector (such as health insurance, etc.) “. “The new contract of the Central Functions provides for highly professional figures and, I hope this will be the new one that advances. The culture of public work must be changed”. taxation. “Today the arrears of the salary of three years ago are being taken – he explains – ranging from 800 to 1,200 euros (for three years) but in addition to not calculating the interest that would be due, these figures are also taxed … if they are not lowered taxes on work – he points out – there is little to do “. (by Cristina Armeni)