Important news about renewal of the state contract. According to the latest rumors circulated over the weekend, the Government intends to allocate for this item of expenditure approximately 900 million euros for the three-year period 2016-2018.
However, since the last maneuver had already foreseen 300 million for this year (which have not been used), the new resources foreseen by the new Stability law should amount to about 600 million.
In any case, the game is not over yet and it is not impossible to adjust the figures upwards, perhaps reserving a surplus for 2018, given that the increase is spread over three years.
In the coming weeks, the unions and the government should meet again to take stock before the start of the actual bargaining, after a seven-year blockade.
We will not only discuss the resources to be allocated, but also the rules for proceeding with renewals. The objective of the unions is to move some subjects, now determined by law, within the perimeter of the bargaining.
The main problem to overcome has to do with the law Brunetta. The rule, which dates back to 2009 and which has so far remained on paper (because it should have come into force with the first contractual round following the renewal, which has been frozen until now), would require the following scheme to be applied:
– half of the productivity budget to the 25% of state workers with the highest report cards;
– the other half of the productivity budget to workers with average standard performance, to be found in 50% of the total workforce;
– not even a euro for productivity, however, to the other 25% of workers who rank below standards.
Now, the government would like to focus on second-level wages, in particular on bonuses, but no union is willing to sign a renewal that allocates resources to bonuses if the constraints introduced by the Brunetta law are not overcome first, which would leave one and a half million state-owned companies without an incentive.
Faced with this obstacle, it seems that the Minister of Public Administration, Marianna Madia, is willing to include in the maneuver a provision to freeze the Brunetta, but only if the unions propose another equally rigid evaluation criterion to avoid raining prizes.
