Promising results. On September 24 Labor Undersecretary Pasquale Viespoli presented the first results of the pilot project to support temps who aren’t entitled to social dampers. In Italy, the crisis particularly affected the temporary sector. The number of temp workers went from 302,000 in June 2008 to 203,000 in June 2009. Yet, although, among those workers, those who met certain criteria were entitled to unemployment benefits or the exceptional CIG, others were never taken into account in social protection policies, at least before the pilot project launched on May 13 as part of the agreement signed between the Labor Ministrer, the NidiL, Alai CISL and Cpo UIL unions and the temps' employers association Assolavoro. Mr. Viespoli said the system welcomed 22,946 temps, 13,606 of whom attended retraining programs and received income support. After training, 30% of them found a job. Filomena Trizio, Nidil-CGIL general secretary, thinks that the measure was efficient because the social partners “really wanted” this agreement. Confronted with the results, the signatory unions demanded the renewal of the project in 2010, a request “strengthened by agreements signed by the social partners in Pouilles and Lombardy” Mrs. Trizio explained, announcing that the union wants to extend the system to other regions.
The first results of the pilot project launched in may to help unemployed agency workers were published. More than half the participants attended training and received economic support. 30% found a job. Unions view this as a success and want the Ministry to do it again in 2010.
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