Pensions, Meloni to the unions: “We will work on future ones, we must avoid a social bomb”

«We must guarantee the tightness of the system and avoid the occurrence of a social bomb in the coming decades. Discussions with the social partners on these issues are particularly valuable. I believe that we can start from the work of the observatory and the technical tables, a study work, and then continue with an overall comparison on the pension system. A comparison that can lead us to better solutions in a very complex matter». So according to what the premier learns Giorgia Meloni to the unions during the discussion at Palazzo Chigi outlines the future action on pensions.

«On 23 March the observatory for the monitoring of social security expenditure was set up in the Ministry of Labour. It will be useful for mapping all expenditure and also for evaluating the effects of certain measures on the subject of company redundancies and generational turnover», he continues, detailing the next roadmap: «The first table will be on pension advances, then we will work on reinforcement of the social security system, with particular regard to future pensions”, concludes the premier.

We want to encourage permanent work
«As recorded by Istat, a record was reached in March both in terms of the employment rate and the number of employed persons as well as permanent contracts. This too is certainly an encouraging sign. We have already adopted various measures but we still want to encourage permanent employment, especially in the field of female employment, which remains our main gap compared to the European average» added Meloni in discussions with the social partners on the reforms and main economic and fiscal measures.

Bridging the female employment gap
«If we filled that gap – added Meloni – we would in fact fill all the employment gap we have compared to other European countries. This remains a huge issue especially for the southern regions. Our measures have therefore focused above all on the fragile, on women, on young people and on the recipients of the basic income”.

Def, encouraging signs: we will confirm or improve the estimates
«The Italian economy is giving encouraging signs in this phase, the recent forecasts of the European Commission have revised upwards the Italian GDP, predicting a growth of 1.2% for the current year, higher than the average of the Euro countries. It hasn’t happened for a few years. In the Def, the Government has chosen to have a more cautious approach, but our aim is to confirm or improve these forecasts» declared the premier.