"I wrote a letter to the unions to find a solution. The minister doesn't have it in his pocket, but we'll find it". So the owner of the Job, Elsa Fornero, admits the Government's difficulties on the question of exodus. And he does so in front of the most difficult audience he has ever spoken to since the beginning of his mandate: the workers' assembly of Alenia in Caselle (Turin), where the minister was invited directly by the RSU Fiom, promoters of the 'initiative.
Redundancies are workers who have agreed to leave their jobs – by signing an agreement with the company by 4 December 2011 – in the belief that they can retire within the next two years. With the social security reform by Fornero, however, those same people no longer have the right to retire on time and thus risk finding themselves without a job or a pension. According to the latest rumors circulated, the Government could address the issue with a new decree.
The case of the Alenia blue overalls however, it is even more problematic, because these workers would not return the those 65 for whom a solution is looming. “The agreement was made after December – explained Giorgio Airaudo, national secretary of Fiom -, but you can't change the rules of the game in the running. The workers must retire with the rules that existed at the time of the agreement. The minister said that he has some proposals to make and that the problem is that of resources ”.
Fornero has therefore opened a window: “For your exodus we will do a reconnaissance – he added in front of the assembly -. However, I don't think that Alenia's employees are among the 65 already calculated. We need new measures."
Meanwhile, also on this front the pressing of the social partners continues, in particular of the CGIL. “There is no confusion, there is a government that cannot find any solution – said the leader of the via Nazionale union, Susanna Camusso – Where the conditions are right, we have made agreements for a return to work. But it cannot be done for closed, bankrupt companies, and for individual agreements or for companies where new entries are expected. You can't ignore it."
Saying that the expatriates could go back to work “is a way of not tackling a problem created by the government – concluded Camusso -. I ask that those people retire with the old rules”.
On the other hand, the path of reintegration into abandoned workplaces – advanced in recent days by Fornero – is also rejected by Confindustria. “The positions these people held today no longer exist – said Giampaolo Galli, general manager of Viale dell'Astornomia -. A company certainly cannot be forced to rehire a person, companies must be free to hire the people they deem fit to have”.
