Counteract the phenomenon of blank resignations demanded by the employer at the time of hiring the employee. This is the goal of a draft law two legislative initiatives put forward by Nichi Vendola (SEL) and Teresa Bellanova (Pd) came under discussion in the assembly of the Chamber, in a unified text, produced by the Labor commission.
The implementation of the provision is simple. It provides that the resignation of subordinate workers, with any form of contract, can be communicated to the employer exclusively by completing specific forms, distributed by the employment offices and numbered progressively. In this way, the practice of employers of requiring the delivery by the worker, at the same time as hiring, of an undated letter of resignation would be avoided, through which they could terminate the employment contract at any time, simply by dating the pre-delivered letter.
As noted during the proceedings in the Chamber, the phenomenon of blank resignations mainly concerns women's work and, in particular, the use of the letter of resignation that employers make to their advantage in cases of pregnancy of female workers.
THEassembly of Montecitorio for now it has postponed the examination of the measure, waiting for the Government to produce a technical report on the possible costs of the mechanism, as requested by the Budget Committee. During the debate, alongside the favorable opinions expressed by the representatives of the Democratic Party and SEL, dissent was recorded by Gessica Rostellato, of the Movimento 5 Stelle, who declared herself against new legislative interventions on a matter already repeatedly affected by changes regulations, at least while waiting to verify the effects of the most recent of these interventions, the one contained in the so-called Fornero law of 2012.
For Come on Italy, Gianfranco Chiarelli, while recalling the consent for the initiative already expressed by his political group during the work in the committee, he underlined that the real question to be addressed is not so much that of resigning in the blank, but that of a serious and reasonable reform of the legislation on work, which allows companies to operate in a regulatory framework that combines the protection of the worker with the protection of business activities and the possibility of managing the company organization and the workforce in line with the modern needs of the market.
During the elaboration of the unified text in the Employment commission, moreover, the opinion firmly opposed to the provision of Sergio Pizzolante, of the New Democratic Center, worried by the greater costs that the new resignation system could entail for companies. Pizzolante's position, later absent during the assembly's work, had given rise to a heated debate with political implications, as a member of the majority that supports the government.
As for the Government's position on the draft law, the Undersecretary for Labour, Franca Biondelli, she has not yet expressed herself before the assembly, but her colleague in the Labor Committee Massimo Cassano, also an undersecretary, had declared that he was not hostile to the provision, except for the assessment of any costs for the Treasury.
Work on the bill should resume after the Government has delivered the technical report on the burden on the State of the measure.
