Escape from public employment, one million out by 2030: “Wages too low” – Corriere.it

The Pnrr decree

The Government’s decision – contained in a provision of the Pnrr decree – of stabilize after 15 months of work 500 workers hired for the implementation of the Pnrr on fixed-term contracts with economic, legal, statistical, mathematical, engineering and management engineering profiles (for which there is a greater shortage) linked to the increase in waivers of the winners of competitions for fixed-term positions for accept permanent positions perhaps in other administrations. The choice is also linked to a demographic reason with the average of the candidates, according to the latest data from Formez, which is 40 years old and therefore looks with interest at stabilization.

The salaries

But as for the private sector, the answer to the shortage of personnel according to the unions in the greater stability of the job but also in the salaries that are evidently too low to determine a choice in the direction of the public. If around 50% of the candidates for a competition in the last two years do not appear for the tests, the percentage rises to 70% for technical profiles such as engineers, architects and statisticians. Minister Zangrillo has repeatedly said that around 156,000 new hires will enter the public administrations this year, but it is necessary to avoid the risk of giving up once hired, and perhaps trained, with damage especially in the field of Pnrr due to the tight deadlines of the plan.

The contests

The mistake – says the general secretary of the Fp-Cgil, Serena Sorrentino – was to ban competitions for hyper-skills by not recognizing them with a fair salary, as well as for the Pnrr to envisage contracts that do not already prefigure stabilization. There is an urgency that is wages. It is necessary to intervene immediately with a measure which in the meantime gives the possibility to existing contracts to provide for the release of decentralized bargaining funds, in such a way as to increase the ancillary salary, and then the 22/24 contracts must be refinanced with resources such as ensure that the salaries of public employees once again become attractive for many skills that today choose the private world. Faced with this emergency, which is causing the desertification not only of competitions but of public administrations, the minister should immediately convene a table to build the conditions for an employment plan in the PA.

The contracts

From 2023 to 2030 – says the secretary general of Uilpa, Sandro Colombi – about one million public employees will leave, given the very high average age and the blockage of turnover in recent years

. As many should enter if you want to ensure the minimum functionality of the administration. We need to act on the stabilization of precarious workers and on the stability of new contracts for generational turnover but also on salary treatment. Otherwise, what are the Pnrr projects for, to buy PCs without anyone being able to use them?. In addition to the question of pay and that of stabilization and perspective – says the national secretary FP-Cisl Angelo Marinelli – there is that oforganization of work in the public administration which risks being less attractive for technical profiles on a professional level. We need to work on salaries and stability but also on this level.