A thousand extensions towards the final vote: from smart working, to seaside resorts to pensioners in the PA

Majority grappling with a series of knots in Parliament: from TV rights to the petrol decree while, in the Pnrr decree, the hypothesis for the Public Administration to assign paid top positions to retired personnel resurfaces. There are, therefore, more than one open fronts but, in the meantime, an agreement would have been found on the fuel decree after the distinctions made in recent days by Forza Italia. Meanwhile, in the Pnrr decree the measure, already contained in a government amendment to the milleproroghe and then withdrawn, reappears on the appointments of pensioners for the heads of the PA The new law would allow paid top positions to be entrusted to retired staff, but only if conferred by constitutional bodies and with the prior favorable opinion of the competent parliamentary commissions. A measure, it is explained, which would apply, for example, to the presidency of Istat and which would have been included in the latest draft of the decree, being examined by the technicians in view of the CDM which should be held on Thursday. The decree, which contains simplifications and a revision of the governance of the Plan, should also be split in two and, in a couple of weeks, an ad hoc one should arrive for hiring related to the Pnrr. In the meantime, the examination of the milleproroghe continues in the Senate, which has arrived in the Chamber for the general discussion and on which the government will not raise the question of trust with the aim of not compressing the debate. From the decree will be removed the rule entered with a proposal to change the first signing of Senator Lotito to extend the existing contracts for sports TV rights for two years. The measure concerns, among other things, Dazn and Sky. The senator asks for explanations on the choice of the government, which had initially reformulated his proposal, to cancel it tout court. “They have to give us the reasons”, he attacks adding: “is it an extension? Does it involve expense? Is it external by subject?” alluding to the fact that there would be no impediments regarding the extraneousness of matter or the covers to block the measure. But so be it. The rule – on which Lega A takes Lotito’s side – is destined to be abolished with a vote in the Chamber in which Forza Italia should also give its assent. It is possible, in any case, to fall within another provision. Finally, among the news of the day of the milleproroghe, the extension to the whole of 2023 of the operations of the Fund for new skills enters. With an approved amendment, which modifies the relaunch decree – explains the Ministry of Labor – the collective agreements signed at company or territorial level will be able to provide, also for this year, agreements for the remodulation of part of the working hours to allow the staff the frequency of skills development paths, in relation to the changed organizational and production needs of the company. The cost of training hours, including social security contributions, will be borne by the Fund, up to a limit of 230 million.

Smart working

The rules approved by the Senate and examined by the Palazzo Madama on Tuesday 14 February have created a de facto difference in treatment between public and private employees. In fact, for the latter, smart working can be recognized from 28 February (date of entry into force of the Milleproroghe conversion law) until 30 June, both for fragile workers and for those with children up to 14 years of age. For civil servants, on the other hand, smart working will be reserved only for public workers with frailty.

Invoice discount and bonus transfers

The extension concerns the expenses incurred in 2022 and the residual installments not used of the deductions referring to the expenses incurred in 2020 and 2021. The first case is that of those who made the talking transfers last year; the second is that of those who have made them in previous years, have deducted a portion of the bonus and now want to sell the annuities that are left to them. The communication for the exercise of the discount options on the invoice and credit assignment, relating to “the interventions carried out both on the individual real estate units and on the common parts of the buildings” can be sent to the Revenue Agency by 31 March 2023, according to the amendment