How many Exodates are there? The answer to this question continues to be a mystery, despite the fact that almost four years have passed since the approval of the contested Fornero law.
The question returned today to the center of the national debate following the data resulting from a conline survey proposed by the Senate Labor Commission, in collaboration with Istat, and held between April and July of this year. What emerges from the survey surprised everyone: 1.645 completed forms. Of these, only 1.177 would fall by right into the category of exodus persons, that is to say among people who have not been protected by the six safeguards launched in recent years.
Among the 1.177 exodus registered by the census carried out by the Senate and the 50 we are talking about in recent days there is a huge disproportion. Not to mention that last week, the Labor Commission of the Chamber approved a text that provides for the protection of 26 people.
Even taking into account the fact that not all the "true exodus" participated in the questionnaire, the gap between the figures is still substantial. An explanation of this phenomenon is provided by Senator Pietro Ichino, first promoter of the census in question: «The reality is that almost all those who today qualify as exodus and ask for a new protection intervention are simply unemployed over fifty-five. The problem of which - explains the senator - certainly needs to be tackled but with other instruments, which favor their reintegration into the productive fabric and do not instead sanction definitive expulsion".
In other words, according to the senator, not all those who today are classified within the exodus category are really to be considered as such. We remind you that "exodus" means all those workers who, before 2011, finding themselves close to old-age or contributory seniority, entered into agreements with the employer as an incentive for early retirement. The raising of the retirement age established by the Fornero reform however, it has left these workers in limbo, depriving them of income and access to social security treatment. From 2011 to today, successive Governments have therefore launched six safeguards, incorporating into the protection system 170.230 people.
At this point therefore, although there are no certainties about the real number of interested parties, it seems probable that the truth lies somewhere between the two theses (50 against 1.645), i.e. that given the years that have elapsed since the explosion of the problem, the six safeguards launched and the probable relocation of various workers over time the figure, compared to the first INPS estimates (350 people), has progressively decreased.
