The government will pass a decree that will contain new tools to combat deaths at work. Prime Minister Mario Draghi and Minister of Labor Andrea Orlando illustrated the provision during the meeting with the trade unions at Palazzo Chigi. Among the rules that will become part of the decree, new hires to strengthen inspectors and the introduction of sanctions against companies that do not comply with safety rules. The Cgil leader, Maurizio Landini, announced the measure at the end of the meeting which lasted half an hour: “It was an important meeting, it is also fast but the news is positive” said Maurizio Landini as he left Palazzo Chigi, adding that “it will be strengthened and having dealt with the suspension of activities where workplace safety regulations are not respected, it is very important: today there was a threshold of 20% of undeclared work, it is lowered to 10% of undeclared work and the cases that allow immediately to be able to suspend activities “.
The secretary of the Cigl at the exit also spoke of Green Pass: “We took the opportunity to report to the government” the need for “a very strong lowering of the cost of the tampon and that the tax credit on all expenses of sanitation that allows companies to address this issue “and then added:” Personally I think it would be a very important fact that all companies, not just some, as is happening, should take on the burden of paying the buffer for all workers “.
On the redundancy fund he said that “the extension will be in the decree tomorrow in the Council of Ministers, our request to refinance the Covid cash until the end of the year has been accepted”.
Draghi remembers Lama: “Decisive for social peace”
«On behalf of the whole Government, I want to remember with emotion the figure of Luciano Lama on the occasion of the centenary of his birth. He led the Italian General Confederation of Labor in terrible years, in which Italy was devastated by violence and terrorism. Lama has made a decisive contribution to maintaining social peace in the country, defending the interests of the workers and firmly opposing the brutality of extremism ”. Thus the Prime Minister, Mario Draghi, in a message read by the secretary of the CGIL, Maurizio Landini, on the occasion of a meeting at Palazzo Giustiniani. “His incessant action in defense of the weakest, his constant work of mediation and his convinced defense of democracy – acknowledged Draghi – have allowed the union to acquire a central role in the modernization of the country and to make Italy great” .