(ANSA) - ROME, OCTOBER 15 - Unions are pressing because the block on layoffs is extended, together with the coverage of Covid social safety nets.
"These are decisions that must be taken immediately, up to the whole state of emergency", says the confederal secretary of the CGIL, Tania Scacchetti, according to whom "one cannot think that, in an employment situation already strongly compromised before Covid, the freedom of dismissal is decisive for the restart of the economy. An extraordinary situation deserves extraordinary responses and also a strong sense of cohesion and collective responsibility ".
The CISL considers the interruption of the redundancy block to be "absolutely unacceptable" because it would mean a social drama, says Deputy Secretary General Luigi Sbarra.
"They are wrong and worrying - affirms - the words of Minister Patuanelli on the hypothesis of interrupting in any case the blocking of layoffs by the end of the year.
The health, economic and social emergency continues to severely hit all the productive sectors of the country.
Proceeding in this way would further aggravate the conditions of many people and families, with initial repercussions also on domestic demand. "The same opinion laUil:" It is urgent until the end of the emergency, the extension of the current system of social safety nets and the protection of jobs work, through the redundancy block ", says the confederal secretary Ivana Veronese. In the next budget law, she concludes," substantial resources are therefore foreseen to guarantee income support, also using European ones and thus giving workers and companies peace of mind ". (HANDLE).
