From next January, some significant regulatory changes will appear for those who lose their jobs and for those looking for one: in the context of the procedures for collective dismissal the placement in mobility and the relative allowance are repealed, and, in the framework of active labor policies, it becomes fully operational, even if crippled by the constitutional referendum, the Anpal, the national agency for active employment policies.
From 2017 January XNUMX they fail, as required by the Fornero labor reform of 2012, the provisions of law 223/91 on collective redundancies which govern, respectively, the mobility lists, the mobility allowance, the placement of mobile workers and the cancellation of the worker from the lists themselves.
Therefore, workers fired and registered on the redundancy lists by 31 December 2016 will continue to benefit from themobility allowance also after 2016, while workers made redundant after that date, albeit in the context of a collective redundancy procedure started and concluded this year, will no longer benefit from the mobility allowance but from the naspi, the social insurance benefit for employment which replaced the obsolete unemployment benefit.
If the duration of the mobility allowance was linked, for a maximum of 48 months, to seniority and geographical location, with amounts equal to 100% of the extraordinary salary integration treatment for the first year and 80% for those later, thein Naspi it can now be enjoyed for a maximum period of two years.
Its duration is, in fact, equal to half of the weeks of contributions paid in the four years preceding the dismissal, and therefore the maximum economic benefit can reach 24 months.
Naspi is not linked to the age of the worker (which, to be entitled to it, must in any case have at least 13 weeks of contributions in the previous 4 years) and its value is determined according to a calculation criterion that takes into account the individual contribution for the last four years and that, within a maximum ceiling (currently 1.300 euros) is reduced by 3% for each month, starting from the first day of the fourth month of use.
Naspi is also conditional on the participation of the unemployed worker in the active policy initiatives of the work proposed by Anpal through the branches of the employment services.
As is well known, the Jobs Act's plan to attack unemployment developed in two steps: immediately to stabilize temporary and flexible contracts with their transformation into open-ended contracts with increasing protection, and secondly to start a more efficient system of active labor policies for dismissed workers or those seeking employment with the establishment, at the state level, of a centralized employment service through Anpal.
The Anpal it was in fact established by the Jobs Act to coordinate the new National Network of Services for Territorial Policies and involve the main bodies involved in the provision of social safety nets, such as INPS, Inail and the Chambers of Commerce, but also subjects operating as intermediaries in the world of work, such as schools and universities.
Among the main tasks of the agency are those of establishing the programs of active policies financed by the European Social Fund, acquire the individual positions of the workers and manage the job placement by coordinating i Employment centres and Employment agencies.
Dismissed workers will be able to register online on the new portal of Anpal to enter their curricula, release the declaration of immediate availability (in order to benefit from active employment policy services) and access, from January, therelocation allowance.
In particular, the redeployment allowance is a specific measure of the Jobs Act envisaged from next January in favor of workers unemployed for more than four months, and it is, concretely, a voucher that entitles you to an intensive assistance service in finding a new job, with the support of a tutor, to be spent at an Employment Center or an accredited Operator, as chosen by the worker interested.
The voucher, paid directly to the person who renders the service, will be of graduated amount depending both on the personal employability profile (and therefore on the greater or lesser distance of the unemployed from the labor market), and on the employment outcome obtained (for example, ranging from a minimum of 1.000 to a maximum of 5.000 euros in the case of relocation with permanent contract).
The relocation check will start with a first experimental phasethroughout the country, which will involve a sample of around 20.000 subjects, pending the definitive entry into force of the instrument scheduled for the first half of 2017.
Moreover, the result of the constitutional referendum risks weakening the central nucleus of the active labor policies of the Jobs Act, in particular that of restoring to the State the responsibilities in matters of job placement and start-up.
The matter however remains competition between the state and the regions, and on the new centralized system they will now weigh many unknowns: from the role of Anpal as a national control room for job placement, to the active policy tools generally available also in the light of the devices envisaged by regional programming, or, finally, to the management of the accreditation system of private employment operators and redeployment checks.
