San Marino. Labor decree, Repubblica Futura: “Introduced dangerous names that make the hands of time go back several years”
“The Delegated Decree ‘Interventions for employment, training and active policies in the world of work’ was born with good intentions: to create a” single text “of incentives for starting work, reform some passages and also prepare new ones forms of incentives for the most current needs that to date do not find an answer in the legislation “.
This was stated in a press release, and in a press release, which specifies: the support of new workers to retirees in the “Republic incentive rules for interesting situations, among which we mention: the support of new workers to retirees; the insertion in the company of new part-time people to complete the working hours of workers who are entitled to obtain part-time post partum; the right for women to obtain part-time work until their child completes primary school.
Unfortunately, together with these positive regulations, there are objectively dangerous elements that make the hands of time go back several years, reviving incentive methods that have already shown not only their failure but also their degree of danger.
For example, we cite Article 5, which provides for hiring incentives aimed at very broad categories of workers (unemployed for only two months, recipients of shock absorbers, over-50s, invalids, etc.) which, however, are also paid in the case of fixed-term employment of the same. And since the incentive also provides in this case that a significant part of the worker’s salary paid by the state, what can happen? What happened until 2017 and which had led to the revision of the incentive methods then existing: that the company “turnover” is favored, that is the hiring of a fixed-term worker with incentives and then its component with another recruitment worker when the employment relationship should be transformed for an indefinite period, without ever guaranteeing job stabilization for anyone and simply by putting part of the salary at the expense of the State. Science fiction? No exactly what happened until 2017, when there were forms of incentives that worked more or less like this and that had created precisely these effects. A completely wrong system to which we return today.
The norm, then, formally “abolishes” the apprenticeship even if, in the article 2, it foresees norms that precisely recalculate its functioning. However, there is an important difference: the apprenticeship, previously, provided incentives for employers through a wage reduction of the worker up to three years (on the idea of the lack of experience of the worker himself) but the hiring had to be a indefinite time !! The idea was that the wage reduction was linked to a training course that would lead the young person to work stability in the company. With the government article, on the other hand, the wage cuts (up to 25% of wages) remain unchanged, but are also paid in the case of temporary employment. A sensational mistake that, even here, can generate absolutely distorting phenomena in the turnover of workers (young people in this case) without ever being able to stabilize.
Intervention on “company internships”, a form of precarious activity that can easily configure a masked subordinate job, should also be strongly stigmatized. The maximum limit of two internships for each individual, previously foreseen, disappears for recent graduates and high school graduates as well as for young people who have obtained the certificate of professional qualification; in addition, it is said that, for companies with more than 20 employees, company internships equal to 10% of the hired employees can be activated at the same time: in practice, a company with 300 employees can have 30 internships active at the same time !! Considering that the “salary” of these workers is equal to 50% of what is contractually envisaged, we understand the great risks of job insecurity that this article brings with it.
We could also give other examples of serious errors contained in the Decree, but it is already clear from these passages how dangerous this rule is, which brings back to dark times that had been laboriously overcome and reintroduces distorting tools which, among other things, do not there was no need, given that today it has been certified (on the basis of the criteria defined by the Labor Commission in the past legislature – in October 2019 – to define what an unemployed is) that San Marino unemployment is at a minimum level.
All the risks that we have presented questions in the Council, naturally unheard by a majority that voted for everything without doing it. A compensation that abundantly compensates for the positive things that the Decree introduces and poses great risks that we hope will be mitigated in the future “.