Tommaso Padoa Schioppa, Minister of the Economy, signed, on March 13, the decree concerning the "foresight allowance" (benefici previdenziali) for workers exposed to asbestos, adopted as part of the Welfare Protocol (see our dispatch No. 070873). This measure calculates these workers' contribution years in a more advantageous way. Meanwhile, the Nola Court sanctioned two Fiat employers because an employee died after being exposed to asbestos. However, the biggest suit ever brought against employers by asbestos victims in Europe should start in Turin in the spring. (Ref. 080244)
The decree plans that the 4.400 workers who asked for an acknowledgment that they have been exposed to asbestos before June 15, 2005 and who kept working in companies concerned by the decree can multiply by 1.5 their number of years worked in these conditions for the calculation of retirement contribution years.
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