Not only must we hurry with the labor reform: the government's text above all needs some correctives. Banks and insurance companies in the same tone in the hearings in the Labor Committee in the Chamber.
The Abi started, represented by the general manager Giovanni Sabatini. The reform of the labor market "does not appear to contain all those elements necessary for an effective improvement of the regulatory framework". In particular, the text is not "sufficiently balanced on both sides", entry and exit from the world of work, because "a significant limitation of the more flexible contractual types is not matched by an equally flexible and adequate structure of the exit rules".
According to the ABI "many of the envisaged measures, in fact, would translate into an increase in costs for businesses, without the desired facilitations in terms of active labor policies and flexibility in the use of personnel". Having said this, the Abi hopes that in the Chamber there may be "an assessment that takes into account the absolute need not to miss a historic opportunity to contribute, with effective and modern labor market rules, to emerging from the serious economic and employment crisis in our country".
And then there's the issue of exodus. The story of people cut off from the old retirement rules is creating "serious" repercussions on companies and workers. Approximately 13 workers expelled from credit institutions numbered among extraordinary credit check holders as at 4 December 2011 and about 7 potential recipients of checks from a later date (on the basis of earlier agreements).
Therefore, underlined Sabatini, the contingent of 17.710 units of extraordinary checks by solidarity funds and subjects with the right of access to the same funds on the basis of previous agreements, envisaged in the ministerial decree on the 65 "safeguarded" ones, is "absolutely insufficient".
It was then the turn of Ania, represented by the general manager Paolo Garonna. His solicitation was to act "quickly" because "the house is on fire". According to ANIA, the provision has a "symbolic value" for the markets and serves to "attract international investors to the country: this is a strong signal on the decision-making capacity of the institutions". And therefore, "we cannot afford to arrive at the end of June for a provision that has been worked on for six months".
As for the contents of the reform, Ania suggested "improvements that do not touch the essence of the reform". In particular, the association "continues not to understand the reason for the abrogation of the placement contract" and, as regards the apprenticeship contract, notes "that companies that have their own training skills must be ensured the possibility of carrying out training entirely within them". Ania also calls for the mitigation of the rigidities relating to the use of the sector's Solidarity Funds.
