Lavoro, Calderone against Landini: “No attack on the Constitution and we will not expand the precariousness”

POLLENZO. «Landini’s interpretation of vouchers and fixed-term contracts is totally wrong. Our interventions included in the work decree facilitate some paths and certainly cannot be read as a desire to expand the threshold of precariousness. Rather, they must be seen as an empowerment of the social partners.” Thus the Minister of Labor and Social Policies, Marina Calderone, replies to the general secretary of the CGIL who, on the pages of La Stampa said: «The dissemination of vouchers and the deregulation of fixed-term contracts goes against article 1 of the Constitution» .

Speaking in connection with the Forum on work in active society organized by JonsLab Synergie – the laboratory for labor policies and industrial relations led by Giuseppe Garesio – at the headquarters of the University of Gastronomic Sciences of Pollenzo, Minister Calderone specified: «We have having said that where there is an extension of a fixed-term contract for a period exceeding 12 months, and therefore where the reasons must be affixed, we activate them in a collective bargaining and therefore in that system of relations between the social partners which must produce a careful representation of the realities of the labor market. Bargaining is an element that should not be weakened, but rather should be carefully accompanied and structured».

And he added: «We must tell ourselves clearly that we are spreading a bit of disinformation on the subject of fixed-term contracts. If we start from the certain data that come from the world of mandatory telematic communications, we see that today in Italy we do not have a problem of applying reasons for fixed-term employment relationships lasting more than 12 months, because they are 2.5% of contracts of fixed-term employment while most have a duration of less than 12 months and we should ask ourselves why. Probably what were the reasons for the dignity decree had a flattening and shortening effect on the period. There was more of a replacement of workers, rather than using the same worker for a longer period of time».