Sprint in two moves for Matteo Renzi on the labor reform who wants to present himself at tomorrow's European Conference on Employment in Milan with the Senate's first yes to the Jobs Act in his pocket on which he will meet the trade unions and Confindustria in the morning.
Renzi yesterday obtained the go-ahead from the Council of Ministers to put his trust in the draft enabling law on the Jobs Act despite the protests of the Pd minority. But the prime minister's goal is not to minimize dissent but to hurry up to present himself at the European table with concrete results on labor reform.
For this reason, the Senate will have to vote on the trust placed by the Government on the maxi-amendment to the Jobs Act which will confirm the reinstatement in discriminatory dismissals, will implement the proposals of the Pd minority on vouchers and shock absorbers but will postpone the reinstatement in disciplinary dismissals to the delegated decrees. In all other cases of dismissal, nothing is reinstated but monetary compensation.
Today Renzi will speak at Palazzo Chigi to the trade unions (at 8 am) and to Confindustria (at 9 am) about labor reform and bargaining. Renzi, who receives the social partners for the first time, will listen but will also stimulate the social partners to lend a hand and get out of the easy refuge of benaltrism to identify new rules of the game in the face of the drama of unemployment which forces everyone to change policies of the work hitherto unsuccessful.
Renzi will press the social partners not only on art. 18 but on the fight against precariousness, on shock absorbers and also on the new bargaining and on the union representation law as well as on the minimum wage.
Finally, the premier would like to relaunch the optional severance pay in payroll without tax and social security contributions for employees and companies but first intends to listen to the social partners.
