The scenario
Milan , December 24, 2014 – 8:14
ROME The Italian labor market is split in two. And it will also be in Italy in the Jobs Act, but following a different line of fracture. The wall that now divides companies large and small companies, from next split (basically) young workers and older workers. Today, Article 18 of the Statute of Workers ‘protects’ against dismissal only employees of companies that have more than 15 employees. Below that threshold is not considered more important than the shield, reintegration, and that is the possibility to return the company to the decision of a magistrate. Employees of large companies more protected, employees of small companies less protected. In the Italy of the Jobs Act, however, the dual regime will be generational.
The contract increasing protections, which reduces the possibility of reinstatement in case of unlawful dismissal, will be applied only to ne w hires. This is not to say that only cover young people to their first job but who now work have it already and (bravely) will change company. Yet it is clear that most of the new hires should target boys and girls. Youth without Article 18, seniors with Article 18. A score line is not easy to manage, because right now there is a clear difference in treatment between generations: the ability to find a job (with youth unemployment that exceeds 40% ) to slimming of future pensions, the conditions of the children are worse than those of fathers.
It is true that some of the new Jobs Act will cover all, without distinction of age is the case of remote controls with which the company will “supervise” the plant and devices used by the employee, in fact mobile phones and computers. This is the case of demotion, ie the possibility of entrusting the worker tasks lower than those of the status of affiliation. Here the rules change for everyone, new contracts and old contracts. But the big change, even psychological, touches the safety of Article 18.
Thanks to the cut of the contributions provided for in the law of stability, the government estimates that over the next three years, the contract will lead to increasing protections in assumptions 800 000 more. It would be a great achievement for our economy gasping but at least in the vast majority of Italians would remain attached to the old rules: the total labor force in Italy is 23 million people, those with a n employment contract are just over 12 million . New employees without Article 18 would be a minority, but it will grow from year to year, especially if reform were to have the desired effect. This is why many experts think we are just the first step. And soon the whole Jobs Act, including new rules on dismissals, will be extended to all workers. Not only new hires but also contracts. Not only young people but also the elderly.
“I think that in the medium term, the new rules will apply to all” had said a month ago, the former Labor Minister Elsa Fornero, explaining a little background tactical reformism “I know that the setting is to say it begins and then spreads.” And a few days ago also Dell’Aringa Carlo, Secretary of Labor in the government Letta, had argued that the “dual system can hold up in the transition period but can last 10 or 15 years.” How will hold the new wall will tell the first real effects of the reform. And, above all, the pressure of the young people on the elderly.
December 24, 2014 | 08:14
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