The "DIS-COLL" unemployment benefit, in force in 2015 and 2016 for coordinated and continuous collaborators, even on a project basis, was not extended to 2017. This is what INPS writes in a note released on Friday morning.
"Therefore, in the absence of a regulatory provision - the text continues - it will not be possible to proceed with the presentation of applications for DIS-COLL indemnity for involuntary terminations of coordinated and continuous collaboration contracts, including project-based ones, which occurred from 2017 January XNUMX" .
The indemnity affects around 300 co.co.co or co.co.pro workers, who now remain without protection if they lose their jobs, even if their contract, once expired, is not renewed.
The unemployment treatment had been introduced on an experimental basis for permanent and coordinating collaborators (even on a project basis) without a VAT number, and enrolled in the separate management of INPS, provided they had at least three months of contributions starting from the calendar year preceding the job loss.
"It was provided to around 50.000 workers - explains Claudio Treves, national secretary of Nidil, the CGIL union that deals with precarious workers - who now remain without any coverage because even the bill on self-employment, which after being approved in the Senate lies parked in the Labor Committee of the Chamber, it only provides for a delegation to the government. So even if it were approved, and published in the Official Gazette, we would still have to wait for the government to intervene with the delegated decrees".
