DRC: Orlando, ‘beneficiaries do not escape from the labor market’

” We see a country where even the beneficiaries of the Citizenship Income do not escape from the labor market. In fact, the number of beneficiaries has significantly reduced. In May, the number of recipients was almost 935 thousand, in April they were 1 million 160 thousand. In May a year ago there were 1 million 242 thousand. Citizenship income is not an out of control measure as someone wants to tell ”. This was underlined by the Minister of Labor, Andrea Orlando, on the occasion of the presentation of the annual INPS report. ” On pensions – he continues – a phase of discussion with the social partners has begun. At the end of the year, with the expiry of measures as a woman option and a social Ape, it will be necessary to proceed with the renewal because they have achieved good results. But we will also have to expand and give structural criteria to heavy works for access to advance mechanisms with respect to the current regulatory framework. ” the various quotas 100 and 102, and for the definition of a generalized and structural measure of flexibility when fully operational. This last front also intersects with the theme of the reduction of working hours and the possibility of being accompanied on leaving the labor market, which, without anticipating the retirement age, can instead operate on the side of the reduction of hours, as an element flexibility and also generational change ”.