towards the extension for fragile and parents – Corriere.it

Extension of smart working coming for fragile workers and for workers with children up to 14 years of age. On the measure, applied both in the public and in the private sector, the government is at work as specified by the Undersecretary for Labour, Claudio Durigon. The extension could in fact be included in the Mille proroghe decree. In fact, smart working for the frail and parents with children up to 14 expires on 31 December and a discussion is also underway with the Ministry of Public Administration to extend the measure to 2023. By frail, it should be remembered, we mean those workers in possession of certification issued by the competent medico-legal bodies attesting to a condition of risk deriving from immunosuppression or from the outcomes of oncological pathologies or from the performance of related life-saving therapies. Workers with severe disabilities also fall into this category.

The Minister of Public Administration, Paolo Zangrillo, has also expressed himself in recent days on the issue of extending smart working. With the pandemic – he said – the number of Italian workers who have worked in smart working increased from 500 thousand to 5 million. wrong to think that it does not work in the public administration. There are already multiple collective agreements that provide for their use. The point for the minister the management of the instrument. The important thing is to get organised: if we are able to organize agile work in order to guarantee productivity, moving from a logic of control to measuring results and verifying performance, then I think it is a useful tool, he added.

Meanwhile, in the private sector, companies continue to use smart working for all employees as an additional flexibility tool offered to staff. Only in November did giants such as Sky sign union agreements, where remote work is possible for more than 50 percent of the monthly working days, while Tim renewed the previous agreement with the transition from 2 to 3 smart working days a week. The motivation can be read in the note to allow employees: to better plan their extra-work activities, to strengthen the co-presence between colleagues in the office on other days of the week and to achieve energy efficiency and the related reduction of CO2 emissions .