shares the decision to launch it on May 1st – Corriere.it

After having let the emotionality of the moment linked to the unpublished institutional communications and the street demonstrations on May 1st settle down, we addressed the today’s survey at the Labor Decree launched by the government on Labor Day. The survey shows an overall positive opinion of 46% of Italianswith 14% more convinced and 32% according to which this direction must also be confirmed in the future with the continuation of the reduction of the tax wedge, the term of which is known to be set for the end of 2023. Those against (28%) are of the opinion that social support is too low compared to real needs and increases job precariousness. The judgment is decidedly favorable for centre-right voters, with FDI at 81% and Lega-FI-Noi moderate at 74%.

The opposition

The opinion of the centre-left is quite different, with the Pd still at 22% and the pentastellati at 31%. For 33% the decision to pass the decree precisely on May 1st denotes a clear intention on the part of the government to want to reduce to some extent the overall iconography of Labor Day, challenging the trade unions. Confirming the trend towards a clear partisan polarization in the analysis of government action, 31% declare that the concomitance between the launch of the decree and May 1st was extremely appropriate to give further importance to the celebration of work, with the FDI voters at 58%, Lega-FI-Noi voters moderate at 64%, while only 13% of the dem and 21% of the pentastellati hold this opinion.

individual measures

With regard to the individual provisions contained in the decree, the reduction of the tax wedge convinces 48%, on the basis of 18% who express a negative opinion and 34% who suspend the judgement. As regards the new regulation of the fixed-term employment contract, with the lengthening of the duration beyond 12 months and up to a maximum of 24 months, the contrast between in favor and against stands at 32% in both cases, with here too 36% of those who do not indicate or are not knowledge of this change. The extension of the threshold for the use of vouchers for occasional services in some sectors meets the favor of 34% and the opposition of 31%while 36% do not express themselves. The Inclusion Allowance and Training Support and the work of the so-called employables are welcomed by 39% as tools to replace the Citizenship Income. In particular, 19% are convinced that these measures reduce the risk of abuse and fraud and 20% that they guarantee a dutiful difference between the support provided to those who cannot be employed, compared to that provided for those who are. On the contrary, 29% expressed themselves negatively (67% among Pd voters and 65% among M5S voters) because they believe that this change will reduce the amounts disbursed (13%) or the audience of those entitled to it (16%) by sharpening the social issues. Again high (32%) is the share of those who do not express their opinion on the introduction of the new rules in place of those envisaged by the Citizenship Income.

The decree

Overall there is a attitude of greater favor for the measures contained in the Labor Decree by the productive classes and employees of the private sector, while among the unemployed and occasional employees or with fixed-term contracts, the share of those who do not express themselves clearly prevails, suspend judgement, confirming the disenchantment that characterizes them . Despite the improvement in employment indicators (the employment rate rose to 60.8% and the unemployment rate stands at 7.9%) the theme of work continues to represent the most important problem of our country for Italians. since 2003, the year in which the law bearing the name of the late Marco Biagi was passed, that when asked what the country’s priorities are, the prevailing concern of Italians appears to focus precisely on the dynamics of work and its opaque prospects. This law, in fact, in addition to the merit of having rearranged the whole issue of self-employed work, has widened the employment field, effectively legitimizing the concept of precariousness. And in addition to unemployment, especially youth unemployment (22.9%), to worry about precarious work. This, especially in young people, has often prevented the realization of life projects that contemplate independence from the family of origin (more than two out of three young people between the ages of 18 and 34 live in their family of origin) and the formation of their own nucleus familiar.

Reflections on the country

In order to favor the processes of autonomy of young people, in addition to a stable job, they appear necessary interventions on entry wages and housing policiesconsidering the high level of rents which often commit a high part of the monthly income, limiting the dynamism of the labor market and the opportunities which are often far from home. And all of that has dramatic repercussions on the demographics of our country whichIt is, as we know, the second oldest in the world. In short, the economic and demographic recovery can only start from the main path of work.