If the parliament quickly approves the delegation to the government, the jobs act - Renzi's long-awaited reform of the labor market - could be operational and consequently bring about the first effects in the first 6 months of 2015. Because, as claimed by the Minister of Labour, Giuliano Poletti, in the RepubblicaTv interview, the government must concentrate on making retirement more flexible, for an early exit at no cost to the State, and on reducing open-ended contracts in favor of permanent ones.
"Among the serious injustices is the figure for exodus", said the minister. “The exoduses are a problem we are facing. But we have to be honest, when that law (the Fornero law) was made, Italy had arrived with one foot in the abyss. It was an inadequate response but at a time when Italy risked bankruptcy, we have to remember that”. Today “we are trying to build a solution that concerns all the people who end up in that condition. A safeguard intervention as done so far produces a dramatic side effect. You can't go on with a method like this, you need a tool that says all those who get to be like this will get this type of treatment. Speech that also looks at those who lose their job but are not an exodus, at people who lose their job before retirement but who do not manage to hook up to retirement ". A discussion between the ministry, INPS and the commissions of the Chamber and Senate will start shortly. The minister intends to create a bridge that connects one situation to another.
In Italy unemployment reaches a peak of 13 percent (it has been the top since 1977) and a thousand jobs are lost every day, the executive has to prepare an effective shock cure. “Term contracts – explains Poletti – are included in the enabling law because we have an idea of radical reform that concerns social safety nets and employment services. If the parliament works, we close the game in 6 months. The parliament can close by the end of the year the part that belongs to it, and within the first months of 2015 we will do our part. Today Italians see that the drama is not finding a job, losing it without being able to find a solution. Politics must find an answer to citizens' questions, which for one part also lies in the rules - in the regulatory provisions - and the important thing is to link these rules to the needs of the citizens".
“We – said Poletti – do not have a list of contracts to eliminate. We would need a temporary contract and a permanent contract with increasing protections, the typologies must then be in balance with each other. The permanent contract must cost less in the start-up phase than the fixed-term contract: today a fixed-term contract costs 1,4% more than a permanent contract, if we do not reach 10 it is not significant. We need to give the employer the possibility to choose: I choose this because it costs me less or that because it leaves me more free".
