It's not just article 18 that disturbs Elsa Fornero's sleep. In the list of issues to be resolved in the hands of the Minister of Labor there is still an important chapter to close, that on pensions. The reform launched with the Salva-Italia is already law, but its side effects still need to be treated: first of all that of exodus workers.
The undersecretary of the Treasury, Gianfranco Polillo, who yesterday evening on La7 made thousands of Italians worry, also took care of raising the temperature on this topic: “The expatriates - he said speaking on the broadcast "In Onda" - have signed an agreement with the companies. If the conditions that legitimized that agreement change, according to the general principles of the legal system, they can request that that agreement be null and void".
And the icy reply immediately came from the ministry: if the undersecretary has the right recipe for solving the problem - they said from via Molise - he must personally take charge of it. Even harder is the CGIL, which speaks of "irresponsible improvisations” and wonders if Confindustria has been notified.
Many have interpreted Polillo's words as a classic invitation to make do, as if the Government does not have the legislative tools to intervene. Yet it was precisely the Executive that put the so-called exodus in difficulty. This term refers to all those workers who - accepting economic incentives from their company in crisis - have resigned with the prospect of retiring within the next two years.
With the new personal data requirements envisaged by the Fornero reform, these workers could no longer start receiving the social security check on schedule, but have now left their jobs and being of advanced age, their prospects of reintegration are practically nil. Without a corrective thought specifically for them by the Executive, these people would risk finding themselves soon without salary or pension.
After Fornero's reprimand against a member of his government, Casini too he sided against the undersecretary: “Polillo made a mistake on the exodus – said the UDC leader, a guest on “Agora” on Rai Tre -. On this issue, which affects thousands of workers, we must speak with one voice and clear ideas, because at the moment there is no solution. But there is the will of the parties and the government to find it”.
As for the composition of the universe of expatriates, it is about 350 people, and "in the banking sector alone they are twenty-two thousand – said Lando Maria Sileoni, general secretary of Fabi, the largest banking union -, of which fifteen thousand have already left and seven thousand are about to leave by 2013, according to the agreements on the latest industrial plans legitimately signed by banks and trade union organisations”.
