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Pensions: the reform takes off, but the redundancies remain

So far, through three decrees, 10 billion public funding has been allocated to protect 130 expatriates, but the number of workers in this condition still remains high - 55 people had been protected with a provision included in the spending review, but the Ministry of Lavoro has not yet passed the implementing decree.

Pensions: the reform takes off, but the redundancies remain

It has been in effect since January XNUMXst the pension reform, but the main flaw of the law signed by the technicians is still waiting to be corrected in full. Of course we are talking about the so-called “exodus“. So far, through three decrees, 10 billion public funding has been allocated to protect 130 thousand, but the number of workers in this condition is still high.

These are those people who in recent years have given up their jobs (often following company agreements) in the belief that they will receive the social security check by a certain date, but now - due to the raising of the retirement age - they no longer have the requirements for access to retirement. And they risk finding themselves without any source of income. 

The first decree in favor of the expatriates, it aimed to recover 65 people, to be retired by the end of 2013. With that provision, 25 workers in ordinary redundancy were protected, 17 under the cover of solidarity funds, 10 belonging to the category of voluntary prosecutors, 3.500 in long-term mobility and a thousand between exempt workers and workers on leave. 

Another 55 people had been protected with an inserted law in the spending review of last July, but for them the question remains open, because the Ministry of Labor has not yet approved the implementing decree. 

An amendment to the recent stability Law it then expanded the range of those protected by another 10 workers: of these, 800 belong to ordinary mobility and about 5 are protected on condition that they leave their jobs following the signing of collective or individual agreements by 31 December 2011.

At the moment, it is really difficult to establish precisely how many people are left without protection. According to the CGIL they would be 200, mostly workers from small and medium-sized enterprises in the north, farmers, temporary workers and women. Certainly, all workers who have signed mobility agreements valid after 4 December 2011, as well as those who have joined outside government offices, remain outside the corrective measures approved so far by Parliament.

Workers who have signed territorial or company agreements are also excluded, as well as those who, by 6 December 2011, had not yet made any voluntary payment. As for women, what is worrying is the situation of many female workers who – on the basis of the 1992 reform – thought they could retire at 60 with only 15 years of contributions. After the Fornero reform this is no longer possible.

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