Italy: government finishes ‘informal’ consultations on the labor market reform

Union positions.  Banking on the newfound unity because of the mobilization against the “Monti maneuver” (see our dispatch No.  110775), the leaders of the CGIL, Cisl and Uil – Susanna Camusso, Raffaele Bonnani and Luigi Angeletti – are meeting today, January 13, in Rome, to determine a joint platform of the reform of labor.  It seems that their respective positions are already quite similar.  “Reducing precariousness, drastically simplifying the 46 forms of labor access,” is the priority for the CGIL which, together with the Cisl and Uil, recommends the apprenticeship contract as the “form of access to employment.”  The three confederations also want to “make flexibility more expensive,” first to make it less appealing, and second to finance the universal character of social dampers.  Cisl and Uil notably suggest extending the temporary model, whose additional costs should pay for income support, provident schemes and training.  Income support for precarious workers is also included in the CGIL’s proposal for the reform of social dampers, which maintains the two pillars of Cassa Integrazione and unemployment benefits.  The employment of young people and women, and tax remissions on wages and pensions, along with the intensification of the fight against tax evasion and hidden labor, are some of the unions’ other joint priorities.
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dampers. Cisl and Uil notably suggest extending the temporary model, whose additional costs should pay for income support, provident schemes and training. Income support for precarious workers is also included in the CGIL’s proposal for the reform of social dampers, which maintains the two pillars of Cassa Integrazione and unemployment benefits. The employment of young people and women, and tax remissions on wages and pensions, along with the intensification of the fight against tax evasion

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