news aboutSocial bee and on early retirement for early workers: subjects who want to leave in 2017 will have to submit the application between May 30st and June XNUMXth. The Government announced it to the trade unions on Monday in the technical meeting on the implementing decrees on the Ape (pension advance), whose departure in May was confirmed.
Pay attention to the calendar, therefore, because the time interval to take advantage of Ape social and early retirement this year will be included in a single window. The solution is not appreciated by the unions, also because the pension advance without costs for workers is of interest to many people: the government itself expects at least 35 applications.
The social partners are also asking the government to include in the implementing decrees, still to be completed, less stringent criteria for accessing the Ape social. In particular, avoiding restrictive interpretations such as the one on the continuity of contributions in the last six years of work before requesting the allowance.
“We have expressed some perplexities – explained Roberto Ghiselli, confederal secretary of the CGIL – in particular on the procedures to be adopted: the setting of a rigid date within which to present the applications, the criterion of six years of continuous work in heavy-duty activities, which risks excluding entire sectors such as construction, the impossibility, for workers unemployed due to the expiry of their fixed-term contracts, to be included among the early workers or in the Ape sociale”.
The government "must absolutely accelerate the definition of the implementing decrees of the pension package contained in the last budget law to avoid further delays" wrote the confederal secretary of the Uil, Domenico Proietti in a note released after today's meeting on the implementing decrees on the Ape.
“With patient work – said the confederal secretary of the Cisl, Maurizio Petriccioli - the table defined the procedures for accessing the facilitated and voluntary Ape, but the Government with the implementing decrees must dissolve the reservations on a series of questions we have posed on the benefits for early work and on the requirements for access to the facilitated Ape for workers who carry out heavy-duty activities. We hope that these answers will arrive promptly and before the start of discussions on phase two” of the pension reform.
This is the second negotiating phase which will open on 23 March and will mainly concern two issues: the project of a guarantee contributory pension and the introduction of greater flexibility in leaving to protect today's young workers in the future. The two measures are mentioned in the memorandum of understanding signed last autumn between the government and the trade unions.
