(ANSA) - ROME, FEBRUARY 21 - "The news relating to the positive trial of the short week in the United Kingdom in 61 companies with interesting results both for companies and for workers must also open a comparison between social partners in Italy in the same direction. It is time to regulate work especially in the manufacturing sector in a more sustainable, free and productive way": said Roberto Benaglia, general secretary of the metalworkers of the Fim Cisl.
"The technological and organizational leaps that digitization and work for objectives are taking place in many metalworking companies must spur us to throw our hearts beyond the obstacle. It is possible to rethink company hours and reduce them, not against company competitiveness but by seeking new balances and better results".
Already last year, the Fim Cisl in its congress in Turin focused on the definition of "fair work" proposed to negotiate, especially at the company level, a form of work made up of 4 parts of full activity and 1/5 of reduced hours which could be also dedicated to training or care loads.
It is not a question of reducing working hours in a generic way as in the last century but of making work more sustainable and flexible towards people's needs means making workplaces more attractive, in an era where many workers, especially talented young people, are changing jobs and skills move in the labor market.
The union must return to developing successful and innovative challenges in terms of work organization in order to negotiate and create productive but more sustainable work, also for an increasingly older and more experienced working population". (ANSA).