Contract renewals, an intense season just around the corner
Part of the 22nd episode of CSdL Informa, broadcast last week, was dedicated to the subject of contracts. On this front, the assembly of private construction workers was convened on 16 March to illustrate, investigate and discuss the renewal of the sector contract, signed by the three trade unions and trade associations. It is a single text, the result of a long drafting work that took several months, which brings together all the contractual regulations relating to private construction that have followed one another over the years. The contractual agreement in general is aimed at supporting the construction sector, after a period of great difficulty: in addition to economic recognition for workers, company welfare interventions have been strengthened with new tools, and measures have been envisaged to support businesses. The same contractual renewal will be subjected, in the same meeting of March 16, to a referendum among the workers, the last step foreseen for it to become definitive, as established by the law on the representativeness of the OO.SS. (Law 59/2016). The competent Federation is also taking steps to meet the Government and trade associations representing companies in other sectors with an expired contract: AASLP, services, commerce, banks, insurance companies, bars, hotels and restaurants. As regards the industrial contract, the negotiations with the employers’ counterparts have already started with preliminary meetings, and will go into more detail in the next meetings. This renews itself in a phase of great health for the manufacturing industry, which has contributed significantly to the achievement of a situation of almost total employment for men, in which the number of cross-border commuters has also grown, reaching over 6,500. Some companies have reported a significant increase in turnover. At the same time, given the difficult international situation, problems are occurring in finding some raw materials essential for industrial processing, and the strong increase in the price of raw materials and users weighs both on companies and on workers and citizens, which has contributed to a of which has not been registered for several years. This surge in inflation will necessarily have to be taken into account in contract renewals, in order to protect the purchasing power of workers’ wages. Also the sector claims the opening of the contractual public confrontation with the Government, as employer of the PA. The contract has been firm for the economic part since 2010, and for the regulatory part since 2012. The discussion with the Executive continues on the stabilization of precarious workers in the PA: the FUPI-CSdL asks the Government to respect the commitment to reach an adequate solution the problem within the month of March, to put an end to the precarious condition of a significant number of public sector workers.
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