Via the rules on the maximum discount, a long mediation to widen the meshes of subcontracts while protecting workers and legality.
Mario Draghi is
working to bring the measures for simplifications and governance of the Recovery plan to the Council of Ministers today.
We must hurry, close the decree in the CDM in the next few hours, or we risk losing the first tranche of 27 billion that could arrive from Brussels in July. But the premier has to deal with the wall of the Democratic Party and Leu on the subject of contracts: the ministers
Andrea Orlando
and
Roberto Speranza
ask for and obtain a table with the trade unions before the decree is passed. The attempt of the parties of the left, on the eve of a demonstration by the CGIL, CISL and UIL, is to avoid further widening the distance, after the tear on the issue of layoffs. Extend the blockade, as the unions ask? Draghi does not grant openings and the confederal leaders do not lay down their weapons.
Meanwhile, the ratification of all Member States yesterday gave the final green light to the collection of European funds for national recovery plans. And a categorical imperative guides the government's choices in the Recovery decree, a maxi provision of over 60 articles expected in the CDM by the evening: "The funds of the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (Pnrr) must necessarily be spent by 2026" and for " to be sure that this happens in Italy there is a lot to change ". Draghi explains it to the representatives of CGIL, CISL and UIL summoned to Palazzo Chigi but also to the ministers gathered yesterday in the control room.
The idea is to lay the "pillars" of the implementation of the NRP with the decree on governance and simplifications and another decree on recruitments in the PA linked to Recovery, expected at the CDM next week, not before a confrontation between Minister
Renato Brunetta
and the trade unions. It is a "holistic, overall" approach, underline at Palazzo Chigi, to give strong legs to the piano. The first decree must be closed by the end of May, if you do not want to lose the initial tranche of funds.
The point that everyone agrees is the stop to the races with maximum discount, which appeared in the first drafts of the simplification decree. A recent innovation is the introduction of integrated procurement. And a step that the unions like is the intention to reduce contracting authorities "by a lot" ("There are 39 thousand, while in Germany 3 thousand", Maurizio Landini is indignant) "improving the quality of the investment process". On the subject of subcontracting, on the other hand, Draghi points out the need to reconcile the European legislation that "has effectively liberalized them" (no thresholds appeared in the first draft of the decree) and "with the utmost protection of labor and legality".To the unions who raise the problem of the often unfavorable working conditions of employees of subcontractors, the premier replies that this is primarily a concern of the government. The starting idea is to extend, at least until 2023, the threshold, set by the simplification decree of the Conte government, of 40% for subcontracts. The attempt, in technical terms, is to raise that threshold (assumed to be 60%) or even exceed it, accompanying the measure with protections for workers or modulating the intervention with the postponement of a part of the reform to the procurement delegation provided for in a second moment.40% for subcontracts. The attempt, in technical terms, is to raise that threshold (assumed to be 60%) or even exceed it, accompanying the measure with protections for workers or modulating the intervention with the postponement of a part of the reform to the procurement delegation provided for in a second moment.40% for subcontracts. The attempt, in technical terms, is to raise that threshold (assumed to be 60%) or even exceed it, accompanying the measure with protections for workers or modulating the intervention with the postponement of a part of the reform to the procurement delegation provided for in a second moment.
Today the unions will take to the streets against the stop of the layoffs and the threat is a general strike but Draghi explains that the rule of the Sostegni bis decree, with a stop to layoffs until December for those who ask for the cig, is the most advanced solution possible . "I'm not your idea," he says. But he concedes: "We are ready for confrontation".
