A truce during the extraordinary Jubilee and penalties for individual workers who unlawfully abstain from work. These, in summary, are the two salient points of the hearing in the Senate of the president of the Guarantee Commission on strikes, Roberto Alesse.
We are less than two months from the beginning of the Jubilee and for the Guarantor, as happened in 2000, "it would be necessary by law that in the case of major significant events, the Authority could extend the obligation to observe the 'deductible' , a period in which it is not possible to implement abstentions from service".
Alesse points out that the exemption period would be useful not only for the protection of the country's image but also for "obvious security reasons linked to the large flow of users".
As for the practice of wild strikes the guarantor stressed that “it would be appropriate to identify a specific sanction for individual workers“. Alesse explains that the fine would be "pecuniary in the form of suspension of service and related remuneration, determined at a minimum and a maximum". Furthermore, Alesse added that the introduction "of a typology of individual sanctions, with the obligation for the employer to impose them, would make the punishment of the worker following an illegal strike more certain and less avoidable" and furthermore, "it would be even more difficult for third parties (the trade unions) to push workers to carry out forms of savage protest".
And continuing to talk about the strikes, the guarantor underlined how in the school sector, in 2015, there was "a sharp surge with 52 proclamations and 45 effective national strike actions. The increase compared to 2014 (in which there were 16 strikes) was 200%”.
The Guarantor then welcomed the new law which equates museums to essential public services (prepared and voted in a lightning-fast manner after the Colosseum case) expressing the appreciation of all the Authority for the content of the decree itself, adding "however it would be important that, already at the time of the conversion of the decree-law, steps were taken to introduce the pro-Jubilee norm".
