Videoconference was held, the first meeting between the new Minister of Labor, Andrea Orlando, and the general secretaries of the CGIL, CISL and UIL, Maurizio Landini, Annamaria Furlan and Pierpaolo Bombardieri.
After the trade unions, the minister will also meet companies from Confindustria to Confcommercio and Confesercenti on Tuesday
"At the end of the round of meetings with the social partners - writes on Fb the Minister of Labor Andrea Orlando - I will propose an agenda of the issues to be addressed which among the priorities sees, as I have expressed: social safety nets and the employment crisis of women and young people. This is the horizon on which I believe it is urgent to start moving. From the confrontation - he underlines - a series of very serious and important issues emerged, aggravated by the economic and social crisis affecting the country and which require urgent and effective responses ".
I met the general secretaries of CGIL, CISL and UIL this afternoon via videoconference.
This is the first of a ...
Published by Andrea Orlando on Sunday 14 February 2021
"It is important - affirms
CISL Secretary General Annamaria Furlan
- that Minister Orlando has already committed himself today to bring by the end of the month a government proposal on the reform of social safety nets and active policies, as well as an agenda on other open questions starting from the issue of the employment of women and young people ".
"In the meeting with the Minister of Labor and Social Policies - affirms the
leader of the CGIL Maurizio Landini
- we reiterated the need to extend the block on layoffs, giving continuity to the Covid cash and also encouraging solidarity and expansion contracts as an alternative The refreshment decree must also cover with indemnities all forms of work already protected by previous decrees and those who have been excluded, also providing for the extension of Naspi and Discoll, all this also including the most affected sectors such as tourism, services, entertainment and culture ".
"It is also necessary to provide safeguards for fragile workers and guarantee resources to support leave. We then need to arrive quickly at a reform for a public and universal social safety nets system within an insurance regime, capable of guaranteeing equal rights and protection. for all. Training must become a permanent right for all workers and active employment policies must be reviewed, with a strengthening of the public role, making the necessary recruitments, overcoming precarious work and extending the navigator contract ", he adds.
"The emergency to be addressed immediately is the blocking of layoffs and the extension of social safety nets. Just as urgent are the issues of work in the South and work for young people and women. Then there is the issue of active policies of the work, an issue that must also be related to the Recovery Fund. This is why Europe must be asked to refinance a new Sure program for the whole of 2021 ".
These are some of the issues raised by
Uil leader Pierpaolo Bombardieri
during the first meeting of the trade unions with the new Labor Minister Andrea Orlando, which lasted just over an hour.
Bombardieri, who appreciated the minister's choice to immediately convene the social partners, also addressed the issue of the "reform of social safety nets" which "must be done with the bowls stopped and not while the emergency is underway and must be done in compliance with insurance principle, also taking into account solidarity logics. Finally, the issue of safety - concluded Bombardieri - is fundamental: we propose, in agreement with those who have already done so, to prepare a vaccination plan to be administered within the places of work, involving all the social partners, companies and workers ".
Speaking of the comparison on pensions, Bombardieri recalled the need to proceed along the path of separating pension from assistance.
