From internships, with a focus on both extracurricular and curricular ones (the latter are “school” ones) to new simplifications for dual apprenticeships. From the fight against the undeclared, with the launch of the single portal to combat undeclared work which centralizes the results of the supervisory activities in the field of undeclared work carried out by the various inspection bodies in a single database, to the umpteenth relaunch on the minimum wage, but with the agreement between the social partners (currently cold on an intervention by law). And again: the fate of the navigators, the issue of the recovery of purchasing power, the launch of active policies (Gol program) and a first coupon to the reform of the shock absorbers. These are the main dossiers on the table of the government, and specifically of the Minister of Labor, Andrea Orlando.
The divisive theme of the minimum wage
In the latest meeting with trade unions and businesses, Minister Orlando raised the minimum wage. As an alternative to the legal minimum wage, the job owner has proposed a legislative intervention to extend erga omnes the most representative contracts. As a minimum wage, the overall economic treatment of the national contract identified as the reference National Collective Labor Agreement would be applied, because it is signed by the most representative trade unions and employers’ associations. The first reactions of the social partners were cold. After all, Orlando himself acknowledged that, on the minimum wage, they have been working for months, but that the agreement with the social partners is difficult.
The squeeze on internships and the simplification of the apprenticeship
The Minister of Labor then announced a package of measures on contracts for the integration of young people into the labor market. It is thought to reduce the number of extra-curricular internships to only those with greater distance from the labor market, and therefore more in need of training; to introduce reimbursement of expenses for curricular internships; and to simplify the dual apprenticeship. In the regulatory intervention announced for curricular internships (ie school) Orlando spoke expressly of reimbursement of expenses and the need “to provide clear legislation that enhances the tool, to facilitate the transition between the world of school and university and that of work through more precise and protective rules “, as well as” the strengthening of minimum safeguards and the role of guarantor of the promoters of the internships “. Except that curricular internships are those that students have to do to complete their training at school, at university, in ITS. Therefore, it is necessary to find companies willing to welcome them, assuming the risk of their presence in the company (precisely for these reasons, curricular internships are unpaid abroad).
The new portal to combat undeclared work
It was then Orlando himself who announced the birth of the single portal to combat undeclared work which centralizes the results of the supervisory activities on undeclared work carried out by the various inspection bodies in a single database. The new portal replaces and integrates the existing databases through which the National Labor Inspectorate, INPS and Inail share the results of the inspections. In the portal, accessed by the administrations that contribute to its feeding, the inspection reports and any other measures consequential to the surveillance activity converge, including all the documents relating to any disputes established on the same report.
The launch of Gol and the first check on the reform of subsidies
On the table of the Minister of Labor there is also the start of new active policies (Gol), after Anpal has turned on the green light for the implementation plans of the regions (Par). The first 660 million will now have to be distributed; resources destined to the subjects implementing the training offer and to those accredited for employment services, selected through regional calls, based on the five paths identified by the Employability Guarantee Program. Another 220 million will be disbursed once the use of at least 50% of the first tranche has been reported. A mountain of resources are therefore on the way (4.4 billion will be available for Gol), but with a series of unknowns, given that the place appointed to assess the employability of the Gol earner is the employment center ( CPI), which – with some exceptions, especially in the Center and in the North – has so far mainly carried out bureaucratic-administrative tasks, has no trained staff to facilitate the meeting between job supply and demand, and has antiquated IT tools. The commitment with Brussels is to hit by December the target of taking care of 10% on a national scale of the audience of 3 million people – the largest group are unemployed recipients of Naspi, then the beneficiaries of the Citizenship Income -, therefore 300 thousand people, but the government has given the regions a more ambitious target for taking care of 20% of the recipients, or 600 thousand by December. On the shock absorbers front, there were instead a series of technical meetings and between the social partners to make the first check on the reform in force since January. The crux today are the repercussions of the war between Russia and Ukraine, and the many companies that are slowing down or suspending production, using the cig. On one point, the Minister of Labor was clear: no new generalized redundancies are on the horizon.