There may be one new extension of smart working for fragile workers and parents with children under 14. For these categories, in fact, the right to agile work expires on June 30th, but a amendment to the Labor decree law – launched by the government on May 5 and currently under discussion in the Senate – presented by MXNUMXS, Pd, Verdi and Sinistra, Autonomie provides for both the public and private sectors an extension until the end of the year. Six more months which, according to calculations, would cost the State around 18 million euros. The proposal will be voted on by the Hall of Palazzo Madama on 16 June.
Smart Working: what the current rules provide for
Until June 30, the use of smart working is valid for i fragile workers of the public and private and for i parents with children under 14 years old of the private sector. The rules were introduced with the Milleproroghe decree which in turn had extended the old deadline from 31 March to 30 June, establishing the possibility of resorting to smart working for both categories also "in absence of individual agreements” but "provided that this modality is compatible with the characteristics of the service".
Without a new extension, after 30 June, the choice whether or not to grant this opportunity will be solely and exclusively to the employer.
Who are the fragile workers
Ma who are the fragile workers? "Public and private employees affected by the pathologies and conditions identified by the decree of the Minister of Health pursuant toarticle 17, paragraph 2, of the decree-law 221/2021″. These are those subjects "with marked impairment of the immune response".
This includes, for example, patients who have undergone "solid organ transplantation under immunosuppressive therapy", "haematopoietic stem cell transplantation" and who are currently "waiting for organ transplantation". But also those patients with "oncological or onco-haematological pathology in treatment with immunosuppressive or myelosuppressive drugs or less than six months after the suspension of treatment" and "acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS)". This category also includes patients with three or more pathologies including ischemic heart disease, atrial fibrillation, heart failure, stroke, diabetes mellitus, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, chronic hepatitis and obesity.
