San Marino. “Labor market reform: it must be an opportunity to promote the employment of workers with disabilities”
The reform of the labor market, object of discussion with the Secretary of State Lonfernini, was among the main topics of the meeting of the CSdL Board of Directors in recent days in the Montelupo di Domagnano room.
The debate is concentrated on the most critical points of the bill, which represent strong elements of development for the CSdL. In the first place, some stakes would be removed in order to favor the use of temporary work, albeit limited to some specific cases, while eliminating the crime of labor intermediation. In fact, the PDL provides for the possibility for companies looking for staff to contact temporary employment agencies directly, bypassing the public office in charge of selecting personnel, as well as those authorized to carry out this activity, accountants, as well as the trade unions themselves; A function that the CSdL is not interested in.
The CSdL expressed its firm opposition to the discussion table, reiterating the need to save the exclusive role of the Labor Office in the placement of workers and in favoring the meeting between demand and supply of work. If it is a question of further improving the functions with which this is carried out, we are ready to discuss it at any time.
Another unacceptable element would be the increase to 24 months of the fixed-term hiring period, also canceling any limit on the number of renewals of these contracts: this would be equivalent to a trial period of 24 months, during which the employer terminate the employment relationship at any time. the maximum of precariousness, unjustified and unjustifiable, and inadmissible, even if offset by a slightly higher component.
Another fundamental aspect is that this draft law deals with topics that are not felt the need, while it refers to a future, we do not know how close, the issue of the reform of the work placement of people with disabilities and invalidity, which represent a fair number of the (fortunately few) unemployed.
We believe it is irrational – even more so with the unemployment rate at historic lows (2.7%), which has already led to the liberalization of hiring – that the priority is the introduction of new forms of precariousness, largely defeated thanks to strikes in 2005, and not to open discussions on the additional instruments to be put in place to favor the employment of the weakest categories.
An overview of the situation of the various contract renewals still open in the vast tertiary sector was then drawn up, which is dealt with by the FUCS-CSdL (Federation of Construction and Services). Negotiations for the definition of the contract have been opened for almost all sectors.
Several meetings have already been held for contract renewals for AASLP employees and for employees in the trade and tourism sector. The request of the mayor is to focus exclusively on the economic aspect, to allow the recovery of the purchasing power of wages in the face of the sharp increase in extinction.
The counter-proposal of the USC and OSLA associations is decidedly inferior to the demands of the union, based on objective data. Furthermore, the two associations argue the need to define a series of normative aspects, but – which is almost grotesque – they have not been able to make them explicit. The Construction and Service Federations of the three trade unions have started a series of meetings with the workers in the sector, which will be reported within the week.
The other negotiations with the counterparties, after some informal approaches, will come to life in the coming days. The objective also in this case is concentrated on the economic aspect, without adding to enter the labyrinth of the regulations of contracts, counting on being able to apply to workers in the various sectors of reference by the month of July.
The state of profound criticality of San Marino healthcare was also highlighted in the board meeting. The CSdL reiterated the essential need to know what the overall project is and the direction that the public health system must take, placed in the hands of a Director General who has been entrusted with full powers. A project with respect to which the most absolute silence of the majority continues to be registered. Now very important projects are presented, such as the one concerning robotic surgery, without having documented to the trade union and public opinion the necessary reference framework with respect to the costs and benefits of this choice.
Regarding the needs, we were presented with a document drawn up by external consultants which must be the criteria that must be defined which and how many health professionals and administrators of the ISS must be, with the exception, inexplicably, of all medical and personal sectors. nursing of all specialist clinics and OSS of the territorial home service; without having an overall picture, this operation risks being a mere exercise in staff cuts.
In the meantime, the strong state of difficulty in many sectors of health and basic medicine, while the waiting lists have returned to being those of the pre-ovid period, albeit in an uneven manner. An overall situation that, in addition to creating inconvenience and disservice for users, is continuing to produce a profound state of tension and stress among health workers, still forced in many cases to grueling work shifts and to give up holidays, all the more so now. that covid cases and subsequent hospital admissions are increasing.
There are still great difficulties in finding the missing staff, in particular nurses and OSS, also due to not very attractive regulatory and economic health conditions.
With regard to the pension reform, which is more necessary than ever, and whose confrontation in this phase is dragging on without the necessary continuity, the Board reiterated the centrality of the first pension pillar, whose solidarity and intergenerational character is the foundation of a cohesive society and a democratic and universalistic welfare state.
From various quarters there is particular attention to Fondiss, whose reform is obviously to obtain returns worthy of the name, almost as if the holding of the first pillar were taken for granted. Unfortunately, this is not the case at all, given the growing deficits.
The Fondis will become a fund with an increasingly significant entity, of enormous size for the San Marino reality and therefore interesting for many. For the CSdL the objective remains only to maintain a pension system which, as a whole, guarantees satisfactory social security treatments for the next decades, and therefore continues also for future generations, within a framework of economic compatibility also supported by a budget. of the state in equilibrium.